Quotes About Athletics

I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly.

I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

I try to keep things as simple as possible: my job as a javelin thrower is to stay in good shape and do my best at each competition.

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

It's the same thing I have been doing since I was 5, playing the game of football. Going out there when my number is called and trying to make plays.

Growing up in the inner city, a lot of kids didn't think reading was cool. I'm trying to show them that it is cool and the importance of growing and learning outside of their everyday lives, which is a lot of times sports.

I'm all about the cold tub. I'm big on the ice bath, being able to soak in there and let your body heal.

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

I want people to tune into our show, looking forward to it all day, because of great matches.

That's why everybody loves to tune in and watch these fights, because at any given moment, any given fight, any given fighters, anything can happen. A fighter could win nine out of 10 times, but there's always that one time.

I try to be pretty in tune with my body. If you play this game long enough, you're going to wake up and one day your knee is going to hurt or your back is going to hurt.

Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I just block everything out. It's not even something that I do. When the ball's in the air, everything goes quiet. That's how it is. I don't really think about it much. That's how I play. Tunnel vision.

I hate turf. I feel like turf has always hurt me.

Maybe you're not having a thousand times more injuries, but there's an aspect to the purity of the game and the quality of the game that is played on grass that is different on turf.

I used to turn my shoulders pretty level, which a lot of golfers think is correct. But that made my swing too shallow coming into impact, so my contact was picky, especially off the turf.

It is a lot easier to kick off a turf field than it is off a grass field.

I hurt my toe on turf and I hurt my ankle. I never got hurt on grass.

Marvin Harrison was the best receiver I played against, especially being a young player and just learning the game at this level. He was already at a high level, and the job was made even more difficult because it seemed like every time we played the Colts it was in Indianapolis, where they played on turf - that old AstroTurf.

I've separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I've messed up my knee a million times. I've broken my foot in several places. I've broken my toe a bunch, broken my nose a couple of times, and had a bunch of other annoying little injuries, like turf toe and arthritis and tendonitis. It's part of the game.