Quotes About Athletics

I play everything but point guard.

A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It's just the nature of the game. It doesn't bother me.

I love the 1,500 meters. I knew that, if I had to do it to win, I'd run under 4:05. That means I could pick up 100 points, maybe even 150 points, on anybody in the world.

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.'

You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.

Before I step on a starting block, I will clap three times and shake out my arms twice. I don't feel ready to race unless I do that.

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.

I've been lucky. I've been in that top two or three for 11 years at two weight classes. It's been a crazy journey. It's been awesome.

I was an All-American at three different weight classes in college. Started off at 149, then 157, and then finished up my senior year at 165.

Big-time college ball is a business, and they work you to death. You're in the gym at 7 A. M., got classes all morning, then five hours of practice a day.

I took care of business in the classroom and on the field.

People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.

One day we'll have championship boxing in Cleveland and people will support it.

I am now bowling 135 clicks at times, and yeah, it's good.

There's a battle rhythm, a body clock that tells you it's time for football. For me, it's always I know when I get my first football dream. That's my body clock telling me it's time to compete.

I'm used to running against the clock.

There are not too many leg-spinners in the world, and if you look closely, Mishra bhai will stand out as one of the best.

I boxed 15 years in a club.

I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.

There's nobody as sexy as Robinson Cano in the box. I had a coach, Chris Sheff, who always told me to be as sexy as you can in the box.

I've coached UFC champions and stuff before I ever started fighting.

I was never the best athlete, but I knew how to be coached and I knew how to work hard at it.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.