Quotes About Athletics

I am here to put out a positive athlete.

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

I was never an athletic kid. One year I played Little League baseball, and my dad was the coach. Halfway through the season he traded me to another family.

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

I thank God that my body has been able to handle this kind of workload. I don't know if I will ever be like Lorenzo White, but that's the goal I'm trying to get to.

It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

Cotto is a talented fighter but I'm God gifted.

Sometimes, God gives you physical talent and takes away the brain.

I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.

I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.

You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.

If you look good, you feel good, If you feel good, you play good, If you play good, they pay good.

Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.