Quotes About Athletics

Mixed martial arts is great, and it's here to stay.

My goal is to make wrestling more like mixed martial arts.

The reason why I got into mixed martial arts is the competition: I'm a competitor. I wouldn't be doing this for anything else but competition. I want to take out the best.

When I'm at the gym, I work very hard to achieve my goal and to get better as a mixed martial artist.

I enjoy football, cricket and I have been watching mixed martial arts for the last five years.

In football, strength can only succeed when mixed with agility, balance, speed and intelligence about what's going on around you. But, without strength, I wouldn't be here.

What mixed martial arts is being marketed as is not the truth. We're not a bunch of idiots in a cage drinking beer all the time. It's a lifestyle, but it's a positive lifestyle.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you're young, you can't play enough.

Me being in shape allows me to be more mobile and do better things, make bigger plays.

Hamstring flexibility and hip mobility for me are the two most important factors on the field.

I've always tried to be a complete athlete and not limit myself to one position or one sport. It really helped mold my whole football game.

I experienced different things growing up as a child that helped me. That helped mold me into the man that I am now, to the athlete that I am now.

That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

A lot of it's mental - a lot of the juniors, once you break them or change the momentum, they go away very quickly.

Pommel horse is probably the most nerve-wracking because it's one of the events that is easiest to fall off, and then you lose the momentum of the whole routine.

I'm getting my confidence and momentum, and I'm playing free and playing loose.

My parents met during their time at Cal Berkeley while they were both on the gymnastics team. Due to their intense gymnastics background, I started doing 'Mommy and Me' classes when I was 2 years old.

I like to play against Juan Monaco.

Korobov is a different kind of fighter than Willie Monroe, but I am prepared to fight against any style.

Braun Strowman - that guy's a monster. He's done some amazing things.

I grew up in Montana and played football my whole life.

A month before the season, I don't order fries with my club sandwich.

Brother Colm is one of the best coaches who's ever been here in Kenya. He's been, of course, my coach since I started running. He saw me in high school when I was still doing 400, and 200 meters. He decided for me to join his club and we'd been training for one month. That is when he saw me and he thought I could do a good 800.

I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.