Quotes About Athletics

I know that guys can't guard me one-on-one.

I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.

It's a difficult thing in this league to match up, to line up and play one-on-one football.

Nobody in the world can guard me one-on-one.

The only difference between me and Anthony Joshua is that he's made more money. He's a heavyweight and thats the blue ribbon division but that's the only difference.

There's only one way to play this game since I was a little kid - play fast, play physical, play strong.

The only time I would shoot from the outside was in practice, and then it was only when we were shooting for milkshakes. And as far as ball handling goes, I always said that when I dribbled, it was two bounces and a kick.

Marking success, for me, is walking onto a court and just walking off healthy, no matter if it is one minute or two minutes.

All I can do is do my part and keep trying to open up eyes with what I did on the football field, what I did in my career. Just go out there and try to compete and shock a couple more people.

Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.

I'm a creature of routine. When the regular season ends I immediately dedicate myself to getting game ready for the opener of the next campaign in the fall.

Due to the UFC educating people on MMA as a sport, people give us the respect as athletes, opening doors to opportunities which wasn't available in the past. It has been amazing to be part of the UFC journey.

I would love to fight a lot more often, but of course it's the UFC, and whenever they feel that they have an opening, then they can put us in there because there's so many fighters.

I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

My opinion is I can get open against anybody.

If you find my aggressive and dominating play dirty, then that's your opinion. But I would assume most people want someone who is going to do anything and everything within the lines to win for their team, because I know I would.

As a player, you can't express ideas and opinions as easily as when you're doing a ballgame.

Strangers always look big on the football field.

It was a joyful and rapturous night, one that happens all too infrequently in the brief transit of human life. I can remember everything about that night, every play that either team ran, every block I missed or made, every tackle I was in on. I remember the feeling of complete, transported bliss that one can get only from athletics or lovemaking.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous. But there is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. The great secret of athletics is that you can learn more from losing than winning.

In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley? Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. Surely such a travesty has never occurred.

I love getting up – in the summer, I get up at 5:30, 6 just to go train.

I'm extremely proud of the women for this accomplishment. We're here to go to school and that's reflected by the women's work in the classroom. More times than not, the better schools in the country have student-athletes who are talented both in athletics and academics.