Quotes About Athletics

My cardio, my conditioning, is a weapon.

My game matches with Velasquez's. I won't be afraid to kick or punch him to avoid the takedowns because the ground game is my best weapon.

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

I'm not a player that's going to grind at the baseline - I like to dictate and control the point and try to use my drop shot as a weapon.

My serve is my biggest weapon.

In 2015, I felt like I had a good season, but we had all the weapons. I didn't have that many targets, but I still had good yardage.

In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form in that boxers don't screech and holler. They don't use weapons. When the bell rings, they fight; when the bell rings again, they stop.

I have the biggest weapons in my hands. I can go a full 12 rounds at high speed.

But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.

I want to be able to do more of my own stunts and really be proficient with my weapons.

Being able to open up and use my kick would make me so much more dangerous. It wouldn't even be fair to use some of the weapons that we work on.

Of course I don't have a big serve. I have other weapons. That's why tennis is a nice sport.

Cardio is king. This is how you make sure you don't wear out in the fight.

I can't wear the same outfit twice without washing it. And tennis is a grueling occupation.

There was a period where I was wearing MMA shorts a lot 'cause I was doing two-a-day sessions.

I'm going to be wearing the Stryker hat because I'm a walking testimonial to the fact that you can get your knee replaced and still play at a really high level and get your life back.

It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.

I am usually wearing some sort of see-through when I am competing.

I just want to play ball - and I want to do it wearing a silver-and-black jersey.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.

Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network's schedule.

Tennis players wear sleeveless tops and skirts with spandex shorts so that they can hit, reach, and lunge for the ball effectively. Similarly, in order to perform at the optimal level, golfers need to be able to rotate, extend, crouch, and bend, often in extreme weather conditions for up to five or six hours at a time.

No matter what the weather was, I would practice for five hours every morning and evening, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. It was this disciplined routine that moulded me into the athlete I became.