Quotes About Athletics

I want to score goals in every match, as many as possible.

Ultimately, the goal of hitting is to get your mind out of the way and let your body take over - and to slow the game down

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Kicked wide of the goal with such precision

If you give Shevchenko half a chance, he'll score two goals. That's how good he is

I'm training at everything. Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, striking. Everything. I think to be in the UFC, you have to be well rounded at everything. That's the goal.

I've always been a goal scorer. Playing both ways is something I wanted to do coming into the league.

Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball

I want to win a gold medal in London.

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical

Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We also tend to quit without warning. Refuse to go to school,drop out,quit jobs,leave lovers,move,lose all our money. We get sick of being impressive. Rather,we tire of having to seem impressive. As a rule,most of us never really believed we were any good in the first place.

unless a runner is systematically held back, he will more often than not run too hard on easy days and unwittingly sabotage his training plan.

It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course," he wrote. "I had my problems winning. I felt several times like giving into the pain and letting Gary [sic] win but I just couldn't. I just kept driving myself harder and harder, longer and longer.

eating enough carbohydrate every day will allow you to train harder, better absorb the stress of your training, and perform better in important workouts than you would without adequate carbohydrate intake.

If you want to get a sense of what a very high level of perceived effort feels like in isolation from fatigue, find a steep hill and run up it as fast as you can. (You should probably warm up first.) That feeling of trying as hard as you can that hits you immediately, before fatigue sets in, is the feeling of a very high level of perceived effort.

Physical fitness determines where the wall that represents your physical limit is placed. Mental fitness determines how close you are able to get to that limit in competition.

If I was ever going to win Ironman, I was going to have to beat the man who rinsed his cottage cheese

Body weight is the enemy of running performance. Running is, after all, a continuous fight against gravity. With every stride you take your body must be lifted completely off the ground, because all of the progress you make when running is made while your body is airborne. What's

The most effective way to prevent off-season weight gain from getting out of hand is to set a specific weight-gain limit. I suggest you try to limit your off-season weight gain to no more than 8 percent of your optimal performance weight.