Quotes About Athletics

At the Usha School of Athletics, our sole aim is to earn Olympic gold medals for India.

More teams are trying to go full-time, so it gives everyone the best chance possible to be the best footballer they can be, which makes it more appealing to fans, because we're better as we focus solely on the game as our job.

When it came to basketball, I was a fanatic. I started to focus solely on basketball the summer before my freshman year in high school. I worked on my shooting in the driveway, drawing up charts where I recorded each day's performance. I spent hours working alone on ball-handling. I ran five miles a day and played games against my friends.

When I'm in training, I eat no solid food except hot dogs for six weeks.

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

We have an ascending player in Brian Quick, who, I think, is going to be a very, very solid player for us.

Setting a solid screen is something I'm proud of.

I would like to make it clear that there were no solid offers to train abroad.

We're never going to solve weight cutting, we need to just get past that. People are always going to cut weight.

Some people don't understand that after football season, I've got to go to baseball.

I feel like I can beat Jon Jones. I see some things in his game that I can capitalize on.

I don't play ball because I want attention. I do it because it gives me the opportunity to bust somebody's head. And I just love to do it. I love what I do.

If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

A shoe dog is somebody that really loves shoes, and that was me. I was a runner... that became important to me, and it's been with me ever since.

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.

For sure, Jacare would be a great opponent. I have all the respect for him, but I would like a lot to have the opportunity of facing him someday.

Even if I have a successful and plentiful N.B.A. career, someday I am going to go back and try to be a big league pitcher.

May be someday a movie will be made on my life.

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.

How am I overrated if I've never gone to the Pro Bowl? To be overrated, you have to be someplace you shouldn't be. I don't see that.

I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.

I love sports - I used to play volleyball really competitively...I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers, and I've ridden horses my whole life.

Being a celebrity, you always get really good seats to sporting events, but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports.