Quotes About Athlete

Rigondeaux is a high-class boxer. He is smart, has speed and skill.

A lot of people know me for my speed and my flexibility. I like to jump, but I'm not really the best jumper. I'm more of a spinner.

I want to be known to fans and appreciated as a 'boxer-painter' in regards to speed, footwork, punching power - an art form inside the ring.

I've had such a tough time making weight at 155 all the time. I'd make the weight, but I don't feel like the same kind of Sage. My power in my punches, my explosion, my speed - it just doesn't feel the same.

A guy like Saquon Barkley is really a three-down player. You see the size, the speed, the quickness, the elusiveness, the power. He's a unique individual.

I would say, look, any fighter that's out there or any star athlete - not star athlete in the sense of a baseball player, but like a Brock Lesnar - that really wants to fight, we're going to have a conversation with them. Because if they can move the needle, we're going to want them on Spike TV.

Some running backs do different things to get away. My move is to spin.

If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.

In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it.

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

Lyoto makes it very difficult to knock him out, he escapes well and moves very well.

Janowicz is more than just a big server. He moves well, has a fantastic forehand and good hands.

Roy Jones and Muhammad Ali are the inspiration for my style of fighting.

I respect Muhammad Ali... he was the greatest, he was the best.

To me, Muhammad Ali, he was the greatest.

My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?

My mum played darts for the county. But only in the B team.

Bayern Munich made it possible for me to achieve the greatest wish of any footballer: Winning the Champions League.

'205' should be called 'Buddy Murphy Live.' The championship is on my shoulder, and so is the show.

Even at the age of 33 I was one of the most flexible at Arsenal when it came to my back muscles.

I pride myself on being an athlete and I have muscles, but at the same time I am a woman and my muscles make me empowered as a woman.

I got a lot of inspiration and encouragement from my friend and ultra-runner Scott Jurek.

I've had an affinity for Michael Jordan. He's probably the greatest athlete in my generation.