Quotes About Athleticism

I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

I Own the guy guarding me

His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.

She had just been for a row on the river, and the sun that netted the little waves with gold seemed to have caught her in its meshes. Across the warm brown of her cheek her blown hair glittered like silver wire; and her eyes too looked lighter, almost pale in their youthful limpidity. As she walked beside Archer with her long swinging gait her face wore the vacant serenity of a young marble athlete.

Di Stéfano was one of the greatest footballers ever. He had such great balance.

I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.

I'm not much to watch. I run, I fight, I'm not elegant like Raul, Figo, Zidane or Beckham.

I'm 6'3" and 185 pounds on a good day, so I probably relate more to the casual fan who watches the game and is not super athletic, not this crazy monster of physical stature.

Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.

Maybe water polo and volleyball really help me on the court. Water polo with my one-handed passes, volleyball too, maybe when I tap passes.

When I am off the field, I am the calm, very quiet kind of easy-sailing ocean, and then when I am on a hot streak with a cricket ball, I can be the most disastrous waters you have ever been in.

Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen form one of the best attacking duos in football, both are very quick and deadly.

I'm able to see things and react certain ways, I try to slither through there and try to make a play.

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.

I like being the biggest on the pitch, I don't want to look at the other guys and think his arms are bigger than mine.

On the pitch, I will always be like that. That's my character, and I will always compete and compete - always. I'm a different guy off the pitch, as you can see, but on the pitch, I will not change.

I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

You don't find a 6-foot-5 pitcher with the athleticism and coordination I have all that often.

I can maybe depend on my fastball a little more than some other pitchers.

I'm a big guy, right? But I began to realize that by actually using my body like a big guy, I couldn't control my pitches the way I wanted to.

I trust how much my ball moves. I can throw it at you or this far off the plate and have it end up on the black. That's where I kind of went to the next level. I knew what all my pitches were doing. Even in '14, I didn't have that ability.

I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.

I had my share of failures at the plate as a MLB player, but I was always pretty confident against left-handed pitching.