Quotes About Athletics

I felt good in the ring with John Cena.

Marriaga has heart. He has the courage to get into the ring and fight. I respect that a lot.

I'm getting more confident in what I can do in the ring, and that just comes with hard work and training.

It's easy to be the Mayor of Slamtown in the wrestling ring.

When I'm in the ring with somebody like Puma, it really forces me to level up and rise to the top of my game. It's sometimes just face-melting, the kind of stuff that he can do.

I loved being at the rink every day and training.

I am training 8-9 hours a day and will give my best shot for Rio.

I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.

The Rio Games, it will be a big goal.

I think I'm ready and excited for Rio in 2016.

I ripped both hamstrings.

It's a showman's sport. I think the rivalry that I have with Usain and myself has turned it into a professional-wrestling feel.

It is never easy for sure against Roger.

I played Roger so many times and it's always a tough match.

The key for me will be to play as long as I can and hopefully to be physically like Roger when I'm 36.

I was never a great screen and roller, obviously.

One thing about Ron Artest, he's a hooper.

I think one thing I had going for me that a lot of rookies didn't is that we played 15, 16 games every year in college.

Until you're a rookie, you don't know what NBA game shape is.

I thought wrestling was the stuff where people jumped off ropes. So that was my experience with wrestling.

The part inside the ropes, the part where people decide if it's a good match or a bad match, that's the part that I take very, very, very, very, very seriously and that I respect the most.

I remember I came into the NBA in 1999; the game was a little bit more rough. The game now is more for kids. It's not really a man's game anymore.

I'm accustomed to playing basketball really rough. When I came into the league, I was used to fighting on the court. That's how I grew up playing basketball.

I want to spend as much time as I can with my kids, but I know the opportunities in athletics don't often come round, so I've just got to make the most of it.