Quotes About Athletics

Basketball is a game of streaks. Sometimes a guy will be cold for a month and then get hot for a month.

In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.

I've just got to continue doing my job and more and more people will see the beauty in the sport that I see.

Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than any other. I do not say that because I have made my living at it. I say it from the heart.

I never grew up a runner. I never thought of myself as somebody that was fit or somebody that could advocate for that and then the more people kind of have caught onto it, it's inspired me to keep going, the more I keep doing it. And it's just kind of become something that I really like and I think it's relatable in the sense of I'm not an athlete.

I should hurt a lot more people than I do. I'd like to hurt someone on every play.

You can't out-wrestle me. You can't out-strike me. You don't have more power than me.

I love driving the sled more than anything.

Hockey fascinates me more than anything else in life.

There are a lot of things about playing football that I miss. More than anything, I miss competing. I miss the camaraderie. I miss the locker room and the huddle and those kinds of things.

There's a lot of guys who can bowl 150 km/h when you give them the ball when they're fresh in the morning, but can they do it late in the afternoon when it's boiling hot and they're bowling their 20th over for the day? I want to be able to do that and I want to be the only guy who is able to do that.

I was just really excited to win the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m in Moscow and then, to top that off, to win the Diamond Race in the 100m and 200m.

The Champions League, for me especially, is the most beautiful competition.

Conditioning is the most important thing in MMA.

In football, physical condition is very important, but the head is the most important thing. If you don't have the head, if the mentality is not good, then you are in trouble.

Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'

I always come very motivated to the Grand Slams.

I love to fight. Keeping me at home without a fight is the same to offer candy to a kid and then take it away. That's why I'm always competing in other martial arts. That keeps me motivated to train and helps me learn even more.

Cristiano is just one more player who is always motivated.

Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not only motivating but inspiring.

It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.