Quotes About Athletics

I'll catch a 25-yard pass and, typically, I'm spinning the ball and I'll be looking at the fans to try and pump them up.

If you're genetically predisposed to having bigger, more muscular legs, spinning is definitely going to accentuate that, for sure.

The chance of messing up and falling significantly increases when you're flipping through the air three times while spinning and trying to grab your skis.

I was clipped from behind, and my leg got caught between my opponent's legs. As we fell, my leg snapped. It was a spiral fracture. They had to put in a plate and five screws. It was a devastating moment: one minute I was on cloud nine, and then I was out for the season.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

Fans know my hair is my thing - I flip my hair every time I get in the ring - and believe it or not some spit in my hair. They can't touch to you so they spit on you.

It is impossible to train and play without spitting.

Hopefully I won't be the last big splash at Under Armour.

When I go in and fight, I'm not the same guy who is sitting in front of you, who is meeting the fans or anything like that. It's like a split personality.

I understand the plays, the depth, the routes, the splits and everything. I just feel good that I can make some plays. Definitely, the game's slowed down for me.

People are saying I hold and spoil, but you don't get to win Olympic gold without a bit of power and ability.

I was a brash player, and I spoke my mind on the court.

I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather

Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season.

No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.

I'm playing against men who are bigger and stronger than I'm used to. I've definitely got to bulk up at some point.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.