Quotes About Athlete

Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the best players not only of his time, but of all time. He is an absolute phenomenon.

At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.

I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

I think there is definitely a physical peak for people, and it's probably a little bit later than most people would believe.

A ladder match is a career altering match, the physicality of it is second to none.

I think the physicality of being an athlete or working out, it grounds you. It centers you.

I played baseball my entire life, up through college and everything, so working out and being physically active was always a huge part of my life. I'll spend at least a couple of hours in the gym a day.

I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.

I love football, and I love to play, and I want to play until I physically can't - whatever age that is.

Ryan Giggs just had an athlete's physique. He could run all day.

When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.

On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three pieces of pineapple. Everything's in threes.

I am lighter than Paul Pierce.

When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.

I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.

I believe I deserve to be respected as an athlete because I'm a pioneer in this sport.

I've been pioneering for this sport since before there was weight classes and gloves.

Robbie James, who was a real good friend of mine, died on the pitch at 40.

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

I was an athlete in college, and Wall Street likes athletes because they're very competitive people that are willing to do anything to win. So I got a job at Bear Stearns in the summer of 2007.

I ain't got nothing to say. I just wanna play football.

I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day.

I love doing a lot of cardio. It's not so much for the way I look. It's for how I perform. If I get in the ring with a 215-pounder, I wanna be able to keep up with him agility-wise. I take that back to my football days of being a large athlete that could move.