Quotes About Athletics

Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

I was being Jesse Owens. he answered as though it was the most natural thing on earth to be doing. There was even something implicit in his tone that suggested something along the lines of, What the hell does it look like?

Rudy, please, wake up. God damn it, wake up, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come one, Jesse Owens, don't you know I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up...

Jesse Owens?" Mr. Steiner was the type of man who was very wooden. His voice was angular and true. His body was tall and heavy, like oak. His hair was like splinters. "What about him?

Olympics are a warped, watered-down version of the only worthy contest between nations: war

I love the business of pro wrestling and it is something I know better than anything else I know about.

It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

I love cycling. I am going to keep racing as hard as I can until this body doesn't allow me to any more.

My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.

I love competing. I am so competitive. I definitely need to win because I hate losing. I am the type who if I know I will lose I won't compete.

Running is not who I am; it's something I do; it's something I love.

I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

I love dudes who are about winning and that is Kobe Bryant !

A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

You shitbag,' I yelled. 'I'm going to kick your stupid marathon-running shins so hard you're going to think 157th was actually a good result.

I'm going to kick your stupid marathon-running shins so hard you're going to think 157th was actually a good result.

I played sports in high school and in college.

Squash is boxing with racquets.

I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.

I just said I'm the greatest; I never said I was the smartest," he told reporters.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4 000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.