Quotes About Athletics

Before I broke my back, I was really looking forward to playing hockey at the University of Michigan. That was my biggest goal.

All the people who can't get into Michigan go to Michigan State.

Michigan is a proud university.

I'm better on the pitch than with the microphone.

I know what it is to win and to lose, and the last thing you want when you've lost is to have a microphone stuck under your nose.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

Starting in middle school, I would play on two or three baseball teams at the same time, because that's just how things worked in south Florida. I would practice six or seven days each week. I honestly don't know how my parents did it, but my dad always found a way to make it to each and every game.

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

I was Mike Schmidt without any of the power.

At Milan, Kaka used to work even when we had two or three days off. And our fitness coach, Daniele Tognaccini, made him run.

I messed up my eyes. It's funny, I was training and we thought I had a mild concussion. But you know, I was out in Albuquerque and I would train from 9:30 to 11:00 and then I would rest all day long until 5:00 and I'd be playing on my phone, so I was playing on my phone and it scrambled my fore-vision.

It's hard to run a mile when you're not a miler and to kick when you've led all the way.

At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted.

I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.

Even though I retired, I work out four to five days a week, run two to three miles, I play ball.

I've got a lot of miles on my legs.

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

I put my body through hell. I run 120 miles a week, week in, week out.

Since my international debut in 2014 the miles on the clock have probably crept up and Test cricket is the level where the pressure and scrutiny are greatest.

I run at least five miles a day, just long distance.

A guy can do a stair-stepper for an hour or go out and run five miles, but there's a big difference between doing that and going out into the ring and being ready to go-go-go-go-go!

My military service has nothing to do with what I do in the ring.

I loved playing against the Pacers and Reggie Miller. Reggie was a great competitor, and I enjoyed playing against competitors.