Quotes About Athletics

Playing three games in seven or eight days is very tough.

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

Whether you're a batsman, bowler, or an all-rounder, fitness is tough if you follow your regimen religiously.

It takes a very tough man to play defensive line at any level of football, but to be able to do it on a Division 1 level, or a professional level, it takes that intensity, that aggression, and you have to be tough.

I feel hockey is a tough game.

As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.

Will Brooks is a very tough guy. He's an ex-champ and beat very tough guys. The same way I fought very tough guys.

I left the UFC after the fight with Ortiz. Tito was the last super tough guy as I had already handled all of the other guys quite handily.

Sulecki was a tough guy. He wasn't taking no for an answer. He came to fight, though, and I did what I had to do, and that's look pretty. Tall, black, handsome.

If I wasn't into MMA, I would definitely love to get into motocross. That is a much tougher sport.

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.

I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.

It is tougher to control range on a guy who is as tall, lengthy, and busy as Amir Khan, who has a very good jab.

Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I'm a basketball player. I can play the whole game. Of course, when you get older, it's a little bit tougher, but whatever.

Being in the UFC doesn't mean you're the best. UFC is tough too, but Bellator is tougher.

The toughest defenders I've faced are Alessandro Nesta, Paolo Maldini, Ivan Cordoba, Ciro Ferrara and Walter Samuel.

The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

The fight game has changed to where it's no longer the toughest is fighting the toughest to be the best on the planet.

Tim Kennedy is one of the toughest guys in my opinion.

I think Martin Keown was the toughest. I liked playing against him in training because I knew it was just like a game situation.

In the 1930s, in boxing, to be the heavyweight champion of the world was really, really big, people wanted to see the toughest guys. But what I've figured out now, in the '50s, '60s, boxing started to become more entertainment than sport.

World Championships is the toughest competition in the world.