Quotes About Athletics

I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.

How can a you hit and think at the same time?

I go out and put in a load during the offseason so I know what I'm going to be able to do, as long as I stay healthy, when it comes time for the season.

I feel like I'm one of the best strikers in MMA. I just need the time to prove it. You haven't really seen my full potential yet.

Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'

You are aware that I have some proficiency in the good old British sport of boxing.

My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness, ' but a lot of fighters go overboard.

Sports saved my life.

I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house - like the sticks, the helmet.

A well hit golf shot is a feeling that goes up the shaft, right through your hands and into your heart.

Whenever a college athletic program got itself in trouble with the law - big trouble - the NCAA usually steered clear, sticking to how many minutes a week student-athletes are allowed to stretch, the distance they can travel in a car with an alumnus, and whether they are allowed to put cream cheese or jam on their free breakfast bagel. (They are not).

When I asked star linebacker Devin Bush Jr. about this, he laughed and imitated a classmate's voice, " Ã¢â'¬ËœYou're playing a game! You get a free education! You don't have to pay for food and housing!' "Let me tell you: We pay for all that stuff every time we wake up at five-thirty in the morning. When you go home for holidays, we're practicing. When you go home for the summer, we're in class, and the weight room.

He is Magic Johnson with a jump shot, all right. Larry Bird's jump shot. Lloyd Daniels can do everything with a basketball except one. . . . Autograph it.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.