Quotes About Athletics

You bring a car out, you're going to win any dunk contest.

When I was in the dunk contest, DeMar DeRozan actually did the dunk I was about to do before me. That was going to be my next dunk, so I was panicking when I went up for my turn.

If you're a competitor, this is what you want. You want all of the games to have meaning, context and to be the best competition.

I've always been able to shoot the ball, so it's just about continuing to work on your shot and shoot the ball. That's the main thing. Got to get those shots up.

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

If I didn't play the way how I played, I wouldn't have gotten no max contract.

When my contract with the military was done, then I started following MMA.

I like to win the ball back for the team and I can contribute going forward.

I lost to Lennox Lewis in a very controversial decision.

I'm just god-gifted: I have a talent. Even when I played basketball, no one ever taught me the game. I just played it. And with football, I just converted basketball to football and just played.

I spent the best part of 20 years trying to stop people like Chris Waddle from playing. Now I'm convinced that good touch and loads of movement are the way forward.

Got to go to the ESPYs, which was so cool.

It's a cool thing to see Polynesians - there's not too many of us, period - but especially doing well in American sports. It's pretty cool.

That's where I got my passion for the game, watching the WNBA on TV. Cynthia Cooper, Raise the Roof, We Got Next, I was into all of it.

Unless we get children playing tennis, we'll lose the talented ones with good athletic ability and hand-eye coordination to football and other sports.

Obviously I had great hand-eye coordination. I saw I was really different than other players.

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

If you don't cop the ZO2s, you're not a baller.

I mean, I don't think a lot of people know this, but I played corner in college.

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.

Before, when going to youth camps, the line for QBs would be around the corner. Now, kids want to be either QBs or WRs. Being a WR is popular, it's cool.

It's tough being a small player. You don't want to be known as a guy who goes into the corner and loses 50 percent of the battles.

I love my job. If I have a chance to play against some of the top talent in the world or whether it's against guys around the corner, I'm going to play.

I made All-Pro in my position as a corner.