Quotes About Athletics

All I do is work out, oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

My work ethic is from sports.

I have trained so so hard to be where I am at - I train with Olympic athletes and if I'm struggling to get to the top then there is something wrong.

I remember when I was 8 years old when I first started playing organized basketball, and the coaches had the kids in single file doing two-line layups and they were struggling to get the ball up there. Me, I'm doing reverse cradle layups with the backhand spins on it, like, jump from the right side and lay it up on the left side backwards.

I was struggling, and I was struggling mentally more than anything, and that will carry over to the games.

I've always had confidence when it comes to athletics. It's sometimes stubborn to a fault.

A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

Jose Aldo, he's a stud, and I would be honored to be in there to throw down with him.

For Jennie Finch, she's a stud on the field and everyone's going to love her while she's playing, but no one is going to forget her because of the person that she is. That is what she has over almost any other person that's at the top of their sport.

In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

I would love for a regular student to have a student-athlete's schedule during the season for just one quarter or one semester and show me how you balance that. Show me how you would schedule your classes when you can't schedule classes from 2-to-6 o'clock on any given day.

The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

Before I got into music, I studied sport and used to run for my county.

The more studies that come out that talk about concussions and so forth, it makes me wonder. I wonder, more importantly than the stroke, the impact that concussions have had on my life, particularly as I get older.

Going to Kentucky... it's not really a college experience. You go there for basketball. You get your studies together, but then after that, it's all about basketball.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro.

I love the game, working out, studying, every facet of it.

For me, boxing is just a hobby and a science that I enjoy. I enjoy studying it and I'm a fan of the guys that are doing well.

I have been studying receivers since I was in high school. I've been studying pros since I was in high school.