Quotes About Athletics

I made Edgar Davids vice-captain. Nothing to do with colour, just because he was playing excellently and because he lives like an athlete.

A good run is always good. It helps us to wear the colours of the France team.

I have combinations, and I work on my combinations all the time.

I think, between me and Chris Brown, if you combined our games, you'd get, like, a real Division I basketball player.

I have watched a documentary on Caster Semenya. I am inspired by how she made a comeback.

You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.

Boxing's in my blood, so I'll always stay involved in that, and I'll probably do a bit of TV work as well, commentary and that.

Football's become more physical. I would have liked to have been born 10 or 20 years earlier to enjoy football with the same commitment and desire but without the toughness it has now.

People are so surprised about how small I am compared to other players.

The NFL, as compared to the NBA, it's so physical and so emotional almost every play.

Pretty early, when I started playing golf, I was compared to Garfield Sobers, who played both cricket and golf.

What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.

China in sports is 100 years ahead of us, there's no comparison.

I just line up, and I compete.

If I can go compete with the young guys during training in the offseason, I should be fine during football.

I love to compete.

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.

I like to compete.

I don't know how long my body will allow me to compete, but I can't imagine doing anything else. That day will come, and I just hope there'll be a light shining down a path telling me where to go.

I was in the American League for 16, 17 years, and I think it's a really tough league to compete in.

No woman ever lived who could compete with a man on an equal basis - even a 55-year-old man. There's a lot of talk about Women's Lib. They feel they're worth as much as the guys, but they can't play a lick if they can't beat a 55-year-old guy.

I'm putting in the time to make sure that my body is ready to compete at the top level.

To be able to wear your country's colors and compete in the Paralympics for the snowboard team... it's pretty powerful.

I love my job. I love to fight, and I love to compete.