Quotes About Athletics

I enjoy sports in person.

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

I've had dreams about tricks.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.

Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.

Every time I see open space I see a mat on the floor

You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm trying to do every single time I'm on the mound.

Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."

I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.

Home runs usually come in bunches for me. If I'm feeling good and I'm on time, I can drive the ball even more.

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

I've done sport for a long time.

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

LeBron James is the best player, hands down. He is easily moving into the territory of one of the best players of all time and may end up being the best player of all time.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know hes going to be around the ball all the time.

With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!