Quotes About Athletics

The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.

On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.

In the morning, I reach for the sports page.

I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

Sport is a preserver of health.

I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.

No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.

Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?

I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.