Quotes About Athletics

I just tried to find a fine line between muscling in and staying relaxed.

If I were to write my epitaph... Epitaph? Hey, shut-up Albert. I'd want to be remembered as someone who loved his sport and tried his best.

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

I got into running when I was being mentored by my coach. I tried it and developed a passion for it.

I watch Mark Hunt fight for a long time, since his K-1 days. He's a nice guy. He tries to knock you out all the time. That's his style.

Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

If you give me six tries, I can probably land a kick flip.

They had to re-shape the head of my femur back round. They had to trim my hip socket up a little bit. I had a lot of extra bone growth just from years of stressing it out. Because of that bone growth, it caused an impingement in my hip, which tore my labrum off the bone.

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

My first experience with gymnastics was when I was in daycare. We took a field trip to a gym, and I was hooked.

At the pace I'm running, trying to get the ball, the slightest touch could trip me over. You don't have to literally push me over. That's what people don't understand. But unless you're able to run that fast, you'll never understand.

I started gymnastics when I was six years old. I was at day care, and they took us on a field trip to a gym club, Bannon's Gymnastix in Houston, and that's how I got started.

All I can say is that Triple H is literally the most dedicated man in sports entertainment. Nobody works as hard as he does.

I want to become double Olympic champion, triple Olympic champion, five-time world medallist.

Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

When you hit a three-run triple, do you really need to get on third base, or do you need to stand on the double? You gotta be as smart as you can.

Triples are hard. Triple axel is just not my jump. Quads are really my thing.

Triple H, he's a man's man.

At cricket, I was mainly a bowler and tried to bat. I hit the odd four or six and then got out! In athletics, I was mainly triple jump and 200m.

When I was in Class II, we used to walk about 5 km. to school. I did not know of Olympics or even athletics then. One day, a friend went in a car and left me behind. I was so angry, I wanted to run and outrace the car. I ran so fast that I tripped and fractured my knee.

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

It's such a long season, and there's so many games, so many trips, you've got to build habits and be consistent with what you do.

Before I went on sporting trips I'd take chips or lollies. I had a love for sweet foods.

Historically, baseball has used the 60-yard dash to measure speed. In the most trivial way, this makes sense. This measurement, however, doesn't tell us much about baseball speed.