Quotes About Athletics

I don't need any more motivation. I'm fighting Canelo Alvarez. If that can't get me motivated, then I'm in the wrong sport.

You hit a certain age and it's, are you still motivated to play? It's the motivation, the drive that kind of leads you, and the body goes, too.

I honestly think, rebounding, it takes a couple of things to be a good rebounder... It takes motor. It takes effort. It takes a lot of things. It takes game reps.

I love sports. I love motorcycles. Just like most guys.

Athletics have an obvious advantage over the classics for the purpose of leisure-class learning, since success as an athlete presumes, not only a waste of time, but also a waste of money, as well as the possession of certain highly unindustrial archaic traits of character and temperament.

The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.

He was called World by his teammates, a nickname Mac Wilkins came up with to keep Pre humble. It was short for World Famous

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.

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 come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.

I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

To be successful in sports, you need to learn techniques and skills and practice them regularly.

While she admired those who excelled, she considered sports a torture to be avoided if at all possible.

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

Guys won't admit it, but we're all obsessed with our biceps. I did three sets of ten reps, thirty-five pounds on each side. I knew I was pushing it, especially since we have practice this afternoon, but what the fuck. That was going to be my motto today. What the fuck.

I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.

I had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it is a game of skill.

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.