Quotes About Athletics

I have always enjoyed bowling in England because there is some swing around, which is my strength.

I'm not someone who looks to swing the ball away majorly.

I had a baseball swing my whole life. When I was growing up, everyone had a different, very specific softball swing that was very short. And I had a big stride and I had, you know, a baseball swing, and people did not like it.

Stay inside the ball, put the barrel on it, and swing hard.

I try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.

Once I found my swing, I feel like if I put a good swing on it, I feel like it's got a good chance to go wherever - left, right, center - it doesn't matter. But I'm not just out here going to swing for home runs of anything. I'm just trying to put a good swing on the baseball.

When you get strike one, strike two, you're putting pressure on them to swing at your pitches.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

A question I get asked a lot in pro-ams is how I'm able to swing the club as hard as I do. Honestly, I'm not swinging that hard. I'm using about 75 percent of my maximum effort.

Votto's a guy I love to watch. I think the numbers will tell you that he's the best in the game at swinging at strikes. By doing that, he gets himself in a lot of good counts.

Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.

During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

I switch up between going to the gym or exercising outside to run around a track and the stairs of a stadium.

I'm about great competition. That's why I can have a great smile beforehand and connect with the crowd, and then, when I get in the ring, I flip that switch.

I played baseball when I was younger, but the idea of the college scholarship enticed me to switch over to softball.

Finishing a guy like Benson Henderson, who hasn't been finished since for six years, the guy doesn't get finished and I finished it with a switch-step switch to Southpaw, knocked him out with my left hand.

I fell in love with the LeBron 10s, I wore those for about five-and-a-half years and I didn't switch over until the 14s.

There's Kenyan guys who last year or two years ago were running for Kenya, and then they switched to Qatar and Bahrain and other countries. Yes, I do have a problem with that.

Maybe Asians are switching from studying to sports.

I love switching onto a point guard or pushing the big up the court, but playing against Candace Parker would be awesome.

I can't bring a sword into the ground, so have to make do with the bat.

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.