Quotes About Athletics

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To get physical in films is a dream. I love it.

I just love to compete

I love scoring - even in training.

I love seeing tennis up close.

As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.

Football is what I love, and I know I can do it, too.

Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job.

I love fighting. One thing that is the key to that is I always love training. I love to. And I never drink before, no alcohol in my life, no smoke, nothing. I love training.

That's a very privileged job and I love it with all my heart. I'm planning on playing my best volleyball to date throughout 2016 and certainly during the Olympics.

I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.

I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.

Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs.

And running—serious, dogged, long-distance running—is the one thing we do superlatively well.

We spent so many years searching for an archrival for Jordan—the Frazier to his Ali, someone who'd bring out the best in him—when really, that player was probably Len Bias. We were robbed.

People often ask me if I'm jealous that later generations have earned more or had it easier than we did and I always say, not on your life! My reward has been watching women athletes who are freer now to concentrate on optimum performance, rather than worrying about making a living or creating places to play.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely