Quotes About Athletics

You can't just go out and buy players and make a super team, because it's so hard to do that. The salary cap doesn't allow it. We have a much smaller salary cap than the NBA, and they only have 12 on a roster.

When you're young, you might not be ready to deal with the frustration of playing the big guys and dealing with their power. But we move better, we see the ball earlier, we can play faster. That's why you see smaller guys able to compete. We use the power of our opponent.

I could throw the ball hard, but at this level if you're not accurate, it's easy for batters to light you up with home runs. That's when I started concentrating on making my movements more compact. It just seemed to me that smaller movements would produce the kind of pitching I desired.

One of the things I thought was lost in the move to a smaller court was there were fewer smaller players. Like, you have to have a huge blocker to be able to excel, but that wasn't always the case.

Every boxer needs to be able to punch, but none more than me, and that's because I'm not that skilful, and I'm one of the smallest heavyweights you'll ever see.

That's not the way I think, 'I'm the smallest guy on the field, I have to go out there and do this and do that.' I just go out there and play.

It's not easy to play the big guys, especially since I'm one of the smallest guys on tour.

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

Some days, I feel like being known as a smart players, sometimes clutch.

Think about what caused the injury and how it can be prevented next time; that way, you will become a smarter athlete and less likely to repeat the same mistakes.

I'm getting a lot better with my conditioning, making smarter moves on the floor.

I am still quick at 250 to 260 lbs and I am smarter.

I think that's one of the things I've learned through my injuries is that I need to play smarter.

Dumb and tough goes a long way in this sport but to be elite, you've got to be smarter.

I knew that I wasn't the smartest kid in school, but I knew that I had a way to get out if I did the right things in sports.

Personally, whichever ball is lose, I will smash that ball.

We've got a ping-pong table back home back in Slovenia. I always smash the ball.

I can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.

If you don't smell nice before the game, it's going to be pretty bad during and after.

There's something really fun about being a kicker. Once you get to 200 to go and you're still with those girls, you smell blood.

Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.

I like to smile. I try to bring happiness on and off the pitch. I don't understand how you can play football without joy.

I have fun out there on the court, smiling, laughing, trying to have good demeanor.

On that court, ain't no such thing as friends and smiling and everything like that.