Quotes About Athletics

Rarely will you find a photo of me in the NFL without long sleeves.

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

Games are often won or lost on the free-throw line. This isn't about slick moves or great skills. It's about practice, muscle memory, and being able to keep a cool head under pressure.

Coming into Bellator, I didn't want to slide into title contention just because I was in UFC. That wasn't fair to the other women. If I had to fight through all the women, I wanted to do that.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

My slider's been very, very good to me.

Everyone wants to talk about my slider, and how effective it is, but it really can't be without fastball command. It starts with my fastball, even if the slider is the pitch I want to get to.

The quarterback gets plenty of protection in the pocket, and he picks up protection out of the pocket; he's got protection down the field on his slides.

I wouldn't say you worry about your health when you run. I would say a quarterback as an obligation to protect yourself as a runner, whether it's getting out of bounds, sliding or getting down, whatever it might be.

I used to say to my opponents: 'If you let me beat you, I'm going to tell your kids you were beaten by an older man.' When I beat them I would tell them I did it with a slight hamstring problem or that I was only feeling 80 per cent fit.

When I got to Central Arkansas, I was a small, slim guy with little chance of playing in the NBA. Then, I went through a two-year growth spurt, and suddenly, I was 6-foot-7.

I knew my chances of playing beyond college were extremely slim. You just don't see too many 5-foot-10 quarterbacks out there.

In 2010, Strikeforce came to Houston, and DC was something like 5-0 or 6-0, and I'd seen him at the expo. I seen him walking around and I seen he had a pink cast on his hand, and I was like, this guy is way too fat... because he looked shorter and fatter. Because back then I was slim, I was like 235. So, I was like, man, I could take this guy.

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

I can slip a punch, not by three inches, but by a centimetre. Just have it brush past me. And raise an eyebrow at the same time.

When I was playing Under-14s I had a bit of a problem with a pelvic slip disc. That left me bed-ridden for about six weeks.

Without practice, just playing games, a lot of habits kind of slip away.

I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.

Rampage's footwork is atrocious. His boxing is slipping. He doesn't take the fight game seriously.

I know I can go outside and have better numbers than I put up in the slot.

My brother is really, really slow.

People are thinking I am running so fast on the pitch, but I think it's slow.

He must be lightning slow.

I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.