Quotes About Athletics

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

I've played with a couple good shooters, but I've never been on a team where there's been three, four, five, six good shooters. And I've always thought that nothing gets you open more than being surrounded by good shooters.

First and foremost, my involvement within the Olympic pursuit and Games were obviously surrounded by only putting the absolute best nutrients into my body.

Our sport is surrounded by nine seconds, and that's how long the attention span is for fans: if you can grasp those nine seconds, you're the man of the hour.

My father was an NFL running back, so I feel like I might be more susceptible, genetically, to CTE.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

I usually try to eat lot of calories. With so many events, it is important to sustain a high level of energy through the entire meet. I usually eat two hours before a meet.

If you have good gear and shoes, you can go for long runs and sustain yourself for a longer duration.

No one had told us that in L.A. we would get only American food. I had no choice but to eat rice porridge without any nutrition supplement, and that definitely affected my performance in the last 35 meters of my event since I couldn't sustain the energy level.

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

Personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in the UFC, not in practice.

The same way I run now, I swear, is the same way I ran when I was 6 years old.

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

I don't want to be idolized, I just want to play. And to do that you have to run and sweat.

The fans still want to see me, sweat pants and all.

At one of the games I broadcast at Florida State a few years back, the mercury soared to 105 degrees, and you try attempting to look composed and professional, providing insight from the benches, while sweat pours into your eyes.

If someone were to actually come to one of our training sessions, there's lots of flipping and sweating and crying and blood going on all over the place. I mean, if that doesn't qualify it as a sport, then I don't know what does.

I like sweating.

Everybody in Sweden knows MMA now. It's mainstream.

Sweden is definitely a physical team.

Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.

I'm usually sick after a fight. But then the brain swelling goes down, and I'm just hungry as hell.

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

I surf, swim, play water polo, and I paddle an outrigger canoe with my team. I'm also a klutz on land, so water is my thing.