Quotes About Athletics

It is a great feeling that I am the first Indian to win a gold medal in track event in world juniors.

The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.

There is some little boy and some little girl out there, somewhere, who believe that when they put Under Armour on, they can do just a little bit more.

I think I have just as much talent as anybody when it comes to the 100 or 200.

I wasn't shuffling from one sport to the next that much. I had downtime to just be a high school student.

To be with the other two-time gold medalists is great, but it's great to just be a decathlete.

It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?

For me, the key to using the stiff-arm is when you feel a defender is closing on you and at the last second he is about to reach you, I just stick my arm out there. I don't know how good it is. I just do it and I gain separation every time.

I run around a lot. I shoot a lot of threes. And that's just kind of what I've done since I was really young.

I've always loved basketball. When you're playing pick-up basketball, you just kind of get used to being one of the guys.

Obviously, I don't want to be too emotional. I just kind of want to use my energy on the court so I can just be able to be effective on both ends of the floor.

You just kind of deal with it. Manage it. Do what you can do, but when it hit my hamstring, it was something I couldn't control and something I couldn't play through.

In track and field, a lot of people don't make a lot of money, so if you're a lower name you might just get run over by USADA because they're just looking to get people out of the sport.

I know that people know me for my dunks, but if you've seen me play you know that's just one part of my game.

I'd love to be able to dominate cycling in general, not just one event.

I had my first fight at UFC 13, and it was just one of those things that become second nature to me.

I haven't been injured at all. It's just one of those things which does happen in football.

I like playing inside. I just love the physicalness of being in the box with the bigger guys. That's just something that's part of my game.

I think you have to be physical no matter who you're playing against, so that's just something that I have to do.

Baseball's just something that's always been a part of my family. My dad did it, my brother did it, I grew up doing it.

It's difficult not to like Justin Gabriel when you see him in the ring. He's one of those guys like an Evan Bourne or a Rey Mysterio, a high flyer.

I was into basketball, football, karate, boxing.

George Karl's son probably wouldn't have made it to the NBA if he wasn't a coach. He would have never got the opportunity.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.