Quotes About Athletics

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.

Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.

I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I'm done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost. It's a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

I didn't get into fighting for the money. I didn't want to be famous. I just want to fight.

Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important.

I have enough muscle already. Now I want to use it in more efficient ways.

Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.

Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, so go ahead.

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.

Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.

Why doesn't the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

My dad was a soccer player. He didn't know anything about basketball - nothing.

My first memories are playing soccer for Carlingford Redbacks with my stepdad as the coach.