Quotes About Athlete

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

If you watch me play, you'll see how often I get kicked. I don't go off the pitch and cut myself to act like I've been kicked.

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

Football is magic for me: it is a special feeling every time I walk out on to the pitch and touch the ball. That is how I would define what magic is.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

I hate when pitchers get me out multiple times. It's probably an ego thing, but I don't like that.

I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

Ronda Rousey is a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, and anything that Ronda Rousey does is going to come with extreme scrutiny because she is such a pivotal figure in not only American sports but in global sports as well.

People do their cheat meals after their matches, but I have pizza the night before.

The football field, I'd definitely say that's my safe place.

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.

I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

You don't play basketball for 20, 30 years. You only play, if you're lucky, 10 years. So that is my time.

My dad used to play basketball, now he gets to see me in the NBA Finals.

I'm just here to play basketball and have fun and try to win another championship.

I have the most amazing job. I play basketball and keep working at it and trying to get better.

I just go and play basketball. All the media stuff, it's about looking forward to playing the game I love.

I'm an athlete. I play basketball and football and all that with a bunch of other men, but that doesn't impact me emotionally.

I get to play basketball for a living.

I was born to play basketball. There's no question about it. That's it. And I'm saying this in my humblest opinion, I do feel that I was born to play this game. I breathe it, I live it.