Quotes About Athletics

It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.

My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.

When I'm not on the ice, I do interval work on the bike or the elliptical, trying to mimic a four-minute routine. But it doesn't come close.

There's no better way of getting yourself back into a rhythm and back into game shape than playing a game. You can't really mimic that in practice.

It's a real strength for me that I've never minded the training process. It's something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

I think the mindset is always to think that you are never going to play pain-free.

My mindset has changed to think about what I can eat to become a better athlete, not just a bigger one.

Kobe was, other than my parents, he was the reason why I played sports. Just his mindset, the Mamba mentality.

My mindset is to stay healthy, continue getting into the ring with the best guys in the world and putting on the best performances.

Samoa Joe is a good friend of mine, and I'm very impressed with his in-ring abilities.

I know people think I'm just the Diego Sanchez from the Gilbert Melendez fight. Hook, hook, hook. A crazy brawler. But I realized the best possible fighter would not get hit. He'd close the distance and minimize the chances of the lights going out. I want to fight as long as I can and be as healthy as I can.

I know they like their sports in Minnesota.

The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it's usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game.

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

The Pirates lost their game, 8–2. Ryan Graves looked like any other pitcher, intense, a small player in a big world, Orestes, all of them. Now,

One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.

Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.

Did you know Granddaddy was a famous quarterback with the Green Bay Packers?" she said breathlessly. "My friends at school told me he won these things called Super Bowls and championships…" She didn't

I know that pucks are now shot faster by more fast shooters. I know that players train harder and longer, and receive better coaching. I know that in any way an athlete can be measured--in strength, in speed, in height or distance jumped--he is immensely superior to the one who performed twenty years ago. But measured against a memory, he has no chance. I know what I feel.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

Relaxation is the key to speed and quicker reaction time.

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important -- like a league game or something.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.