Quotes About Athlete

When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.

The Olympics are only once every four years, so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.

I've got to take care of the knee to finish the season healthy.

I know what I need to do to prepare myself, and I try to do the best I can to take care of my body and prolong my peak years as a baseball player.

Discipline, focus, endurance is what it takes to be the greatest at this sport.

During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.

The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.

I am blessed with a reasonable athletic talent and was an athlete in school.

Ricky Steamboat was one of the premier talents to ever be in this business and was one of the very best to have ever stepped in the ring.

Every guy that I've talked to would love to have that opportunity to go, and I don't think there's one guy who's ever said that they don't want to go to the Olympics. That's a dream and something that very few people get to realize.

One of the best talkers to ever step foot in the ring is Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, and he proves it every time he steps out there and cuts a promo.

Everybody talks about that one when they first meet me. 'Man, I still remember the play you shook Jordan.' Everybody gonna always remember it because it was Jordan.

McGregor talks a lot, but he's also really tough and deserves our respect.

Sonnen, to me, he's a great athlete, but he created that image so much for himself that people don't think he's that good. They just think he talks. So I think it's a risk you run when you do that.

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

I've played against Griezmann several times in Spain. He's not very tall but he's very adept at figuring out where the ball will be.

I used to row as a junior for Scotland but I was never massive, I was always tall and rangey.

That's something I kind of started Week 1, so when it got to where I'm getting a little beat up, I have a routine already for getting my body back together. Just getting in the cold tank, making sure you're getting massages.

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.

I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.

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

I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.