Quotes About Athletics

The intensity and speed of the ball on turf are very different.

I've been playing professionally now for over 13 years - played in China, Turkey, Russia, and just was a part of the inaugural season in the States.

You love playing on a national stage - anytime you get these games. The Thursday ones are tough; I have a mixed opinion. I think if you win them, they're awesome because you get another little bye week in there, so to speak. They're tough on the quick turnaround.

When I fought in The Ultimate Fighter Finale, I had microfracture surgery, and that's usually eight month's recovery turnaround. I had to fight three months after that, and I fought three months after that. And I had to train through that with that.

LaMarcus Aldridge, his midrange game, his turnaround jumper is awesome.

When I turned 30, the first question I got was, 'How much longer do you want to play?' And I don't see why that can't be when you turn 40. I really don't.

When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

Playing on the same team with Sid Luckman and Bulldog Turner and against people like Sammy Baugh, those were nostalgic days for me.

I dreamed of turning pro as an Olympic medallist but I ended up turning pro as the kid who failed to make the Olympics.

Finesse is catching the baseball on the edge of your glove when you're turning two, making the one-handed grabs and shoestring tackles by running across the field in football. And finesse is what I bring to fighting.

I was kind of at the turning point in my career with my knee. I was dealing with the struggles of trying to make the transition back on the court consistently and not a game here, then sit a game.

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

When I get in that cage and fight, that's not me. It's somebody else. It's like a light switch that turns on.

I realize that I'm not going to be doing interviews for the cover of 'GQ' for the rest of my life, know what I mean? I'm on TV because I play basketball really well.

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

I don't watch TV series, but I watched 'Friday Night Lights' because I'm a sports head.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

When I played for Boston Breakers in my early twenties, I really stepped up my training, which meant running drills until you're sick.

I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.

Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.

I've done, on video, 150-pound dumbbells in each hand -I think it was, like, twenty two reps - on an incline.

Going on twenty years, I've seen A-Rod getting better in different programs. He's one of the hardest-working guys there.