Quotes About Athletics

My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

I was a strength coach for over a year where our teams used CrossFit, and our football team won their first conference championship in 36 years!

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.

My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

I can just remember games as a young player, counting my stats on the sideline. 'What am I now? I'm this many completions for this many attempts. I wonder what my rating is.'

Fitness gives you confidence, and if you're fit, you don't have to wonder whether you'll last the 90 minutes.

I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta.

I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.

I lived on being a quick player and my hamstring was breaking every time I made a quick move. I wondered what the hell was going on.

Everybody talks about Bolt. Now they can talk about the ladies who are running some really wonderful times.

I love to run. I feel free and complete. The feeling of moving fast is just magical; it's wonderful.

Against Dirrell I was thinking: 'Hold up, he's not as fast as me.' I can hit him with my left hand. It's a wonderful feeling.

I wasn't able to explode, jump, run - not even walk without pain being in the back of my leg. Every time I bent my leg, even in a walking motion, I was wondering what was wrong with me. But I stuck with it.

I work way too hard in the gym to woo the judges and just skate by.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

It's funny to me because everyone says I'm injury prone. That's hilarious to me because I've never blown a hammy or a shoulder or anything like that, knock on wood.

There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Obviously, there's not as much flex in a wood bat as in a metal bat, so I'm still trying to adjust to that.

When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.