Quotes About Athletics

I breath wrestling. It's in my blood. I have kind of a confidence when I walk.

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eight. No problem. I can do that anytime. That's not being cocky. That's confidence.

A.J. Bryant is a player waiting to happen. If he gets a little confidence going and a couple of catches, he can really do some big things for us.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

The importance of a warm up and cool down can't be stressed enough.

I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

Pro wrestling is what my dad did.

I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

followed me to the sideboard like Willie Pep chasing some little pisher around the ring.

Miami Dolphins lineman, wrote in his book On God's Squad, "I guarantee you Christ would be the toughest guy who ever played this game. . . . If he were alive today I would picture a six-foot-six-inch 260-pound defensive tackle who would always make the big plays and would be hard to keep out of the backfield for offensive linemen like myself.

We were taking one step for jocks, one giant leap for jock-kind.

My school is very lucky. We have an Olympic-size pool.

Skip stared at the ranks of the players. Men who raced from the benches to collide with one another in joyful bloodshed. Who let themselves be hammered and rounded into cops and warriors and lived in a world completely inaccessible to women and children.

They're good, but the Broncos are nothing to sneeze at. Heard of Peyton Manning? I liked him better in blue. We all did.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

I don't have any aspirations to play until I'm 50 years old.