Quotes About Athletics

I think that the NFL is better when Cam Newton is playing at his highest level.

Big game? I'll take Cam Newton over Aaron Rodgers.

All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.

I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.

If you play college sports, it's not like you have to - the next step in your career is another sport. You don't have to go into another sport. If you play college sports, you obviously graduated with a degree.

Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua.

Lots of luck to Paige VanZant. I met her a few times. She's very nice girl.

When someone like Lukaku gets you in the position where he's holding you off it is key to try and nick it in front of him.

Nick Diaz brings it every single time and I bring it every single time.

My nickname, T-Wood, came from football because I was so small, but I used knock people's helmets off. All I wanted to do was hit. I didn't care about interceptions or touchdowns.

Mini-LeBron... I guess it's a cool nickname.

The players that always used to frighten me were the big servers so someone like John Isner if he gets on a roll with his serve, can be a nightmare to play against.

I went over a year without playing baseball. At 39, not playing for a year, a year and a half, there were a lot of nights I was saying, 'This is going to be tough.'

I like to get more than my normal 10 hours of sleep nights before a game.

I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete ever.

I can't mix different sports brands together. I would never go to the gym wearing a Nike sweatshirt and Adidas shoes.

I was a cheerleader for nine years!

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

Basketball is not like football: It's not a car accident happening every play. Over the nine months, you can rest in practice and take off some minutes in games.

When I was in juniors, I was fighting twice a year and going nine months without fighting.

I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

I didn't play JV because I went straight to varsity and started as a 10th grader - that was back in the day when you could not play varsity as a ninth grader. I went right from playing junior high football to varsity.

I did high school wrestling. I was first in the state of Florida and ninth in the nation in folkstyle. Freestyle and folkstyle wrestling I did for years.

In France, sometimes, you have some players or coaches say, 'If we go there, and we come back with one point, it's okay.' Here? No chance of this! Everybody wants to win. I think every team is playing to win matches, so the game is hard and fast, intensive. I really like the Bundesliga for that.