Quotes About Athletics

We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.

Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.

The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.

I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it.

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

I focus more on bars and beam just because those are my strongest events, and I just try and maintain whatever I can do on floor and vault. I'm consistently training on all events.

I used to sit next to Danny Batth in the changing room and he was vegan. I thought, maybe I'll try it. I got leaner and I'm in the best shape I've ever been.

Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.

Even before I went vegan, in terms of cutting out red meat, my tendinitis and recovery after games was vastly improved.

The first fight I ever saw live was the first Castillo-Corrales match in Las Vegas in 2005.

We have physical therapy there now so any fighter with an injury in the UFC can come to Vegas and get treatment every day.

Growing up in Vegas there is that complaint that we have no sports team. We have boxing, but no boxers are ever from Vegas, they're always from the east.

I was fortunate enough to fight at Madison Square Garden, Vegas and the City of Manchester Stadium.

Training in Las Vegas at Xtreme Couture was awesome and I was there for almost two years.

I wouldn't eat a 1,000-calorie bowl of spaghetti for dinner, but I've always loved pasta and think it's a good addition to any meal and a great base for pretty much any vegetable. It's also great when I have a nervous stomach before race day.

A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.

My whole family swims! You can pretty much say chlorine runs in our veins.

When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

I was always following my brothers. If my brothers hadn't played, I never would have picked up a racket. Tennis isn't the most popular sport in Venezuela.

Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.

When I ruptured my spleen, I was about to win the overall Series for the World Tour, and I was at the last event in Vermont for the U.S. Open and was having a great day. Then I just got a little too excited and just face-planted, and I knew something was wrong. I really couldn't breathe, and my whole body was in so much pain.