Quotes About Athletics

Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

I'm a big proponent of playing all sports when you're growing up. I think they all help you from a competitiveness standpoint to a movement standpoint. Certainty with tennis, you get the lateral quickness more than anything.

We look at 'Kneading Dough' as a brand that stands for athletes being empowered to have a conversation about finances, about what they're going to do post-career, what they think about when they're not competing in their sport, what they're investing in.

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football.

While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

If Serena Williams played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God.

I am still the fastest man on earth.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me

Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

Ricky Hatton ain't nothing but a fat man. I'm going to punch him in his beer belly when I see him.

Have I told you that I won 4 Super Bowls?

three cardinal rules for going faster: 1. Balance your body in the water. 2. Make your body longer. 3. Swim on your side.

There is Rio in 2016, but it won't be the same as going to London and hearing 24,000 people - nearly all British - cheering, stamping their feet, and screaming your name.

Nebraska and Indiana were really the only Division One schools that expressed any interest in me.

It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.

I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I'm just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What's the point of that?