Quotes About Athlete

I want to prove to people who sit on a couch and don't do anything but criticize other people that, if you're a true athlete or martial artist, you're not old until you can't get up and walk around anymore.

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.

Anybody who's a super athlete - I mean, Herschel Walker, it doesn't matter - if you're a super athlete and you get the technique of fighting, you're super dangerous.

It's flattering to be compared to Kohli. He is very consistent, and his mindset is very good. He gives his 100 per cent every time he walks out to bat.

I don't like sitting on the bench because I get more nervous there than when I am playing!

You have got to be one step ahead, as a striker, to create that space you need. Apart from the ball, when you're a striker, it is space that's your best friend. You need space.

I was a big fan of Pete Sampras.

I'm a big fan of Barry Sanders and I respect him a lot. He's a guy that a lot of people talk about. He retired early and fans would have loved to see him, like myself, play three or four more years.

Everyone in boxing knows that I am a big guy.

David Price is a big guy but he has not used his advantages, I have known him since the amateurs in the early 2000s and I would always see him in the Boxing News magazine.

As a fan of this sport, I am gutted to see 'Jacare' lose. To be matched up against him and to have the honor of fighting him, it blew my mind.

Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

I won't say I'm the new Usain Bolt, I'm the new Christian Coleman.

I love Usain Bolt. When he's in there, I can't wait to watch him. Because you know he's going to put on a show.

When I used to go to Bombay to run, I would often meet Raj Kapoor and he would take me to RK Studio.

I was in 'UFC Undisputed 2,' but I was only a bonus character, so not everyone got to play as me.

There is nobody called Test bowler, one day bowler or T20 bowler. It just how you adapt and make a difference to your own game.

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

The thing that people don't know about me - I actually boxed amateur for a few years.

I just use my platform as a boxer to reach the masses.

I'm not a boxer.

I'm not a boxer, I'm a basketball player.