Quotes About Athletics

I grew up eating anything at any time and going straight on court. So I'm not really that picky.

This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.

Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement.

There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.

There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.

I have big problems with the left side of my body. I'm taking pills so I can play. I take five pills before every game.

Sometimes I hear the crowd cheering, and most of the time your body's on auto pilot, so sometimes even after I do a floor routine, I'm like, 'Did I really just do that?'

In my career, if you follow my career and watched everything that I've ever done from the time I was in high school to where I'm at now, I've always been able to reach the pinnacle. In football, I was able to win championships and go to bowl games in college, be an All-American linebacker, and there were a lot of things I was able to accomplish.

The first time I ever beat my brother was the end of my junior year. At the end of the match, he tried to throw me, and I took him to his back and pinned him. Instead of simply losing, he bit me in the chest.

The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.

I'll have a few pints the night before a match.

I'm not saying having one pint will stop you from winning but you don't want to finish a race disappointed with your performance and then remember that beer you had one day.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

I just know that I love football,and when I'm on the pitch, I want to win.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.

I want to have fun on the pitch in the training sessions and have fun and win during the matches.

I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

My only day off is the day I pitch.

I never enter in the pitch under pressure to score goals, but I know my position requires me to score goals.

For me, the best thing about being a footballer is that indescribable feeling when you are on a pitch doing your job. I don't know what to say - it's what I love.

Words are fine, but the most important thing is what happens on the pitch.