Quotes About Athletics

George Foreman is back and he's in the middleweight division. That's the way I feel about fighting in my hometown.

My main goal is to help out kids in my hometown and realize their dream in weightlifting.

For me, basketball was the way I was able to hone my leadership skills during the heat of competition.

I can only tell you that I am a clean athlete and an honest person.

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

In all honesty, I just love car deadlifts.

It's an honour for me to be one of PSG's forwards.

My lefty hook became better than my right, and it was hard for anyone to stop me.

Defense has changed because you can't hand-check guys anymore. Back in the day, if you drove to the hoop against the Bad Boy Pistons, you'd find yourself on the ground.

I'm just trying to go out there and just hoop.

Like, I did baseball, football, or track - I never really worked on a sport every day for years like most kids that hoop.

I just want to hoop freely.

I first started playing when we moved from my first house to a house that had a hoop out in front. Every day, I was in front of the basket shooting balls. The basket was regular height, and I was about 5 years old.

All we can do is come in here and hoop, play hard, stay competitive and try to win.

It's never like I go sneaker shopping just to get shoes for a hoop game.

They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

I've had some good games and some not so good games, hopefully all the fans remember the good ones.

I just need to concentrate on each event and accumulate a good score, and hopefully I won't flop in the 800 m. in Gotzis.

I mean, coming into this season I was just hoping to come back, stay healthy and help the team.

I've been good at the game of basketball my whole life, so I'm hoping I can get back to that.

There's no weightlifting event in Palaro, that's why I'm going here, hoping they consider including weightlifting again.

My mom is an elementary school gym teacher and a track and cross-country coach, so she really wanted me to be a runner. But I was not a runner. I was horrible at running.

I ride my horse at competition level.

If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.