Quotes About Athlete

I would love to have been a golfer or any individual sportsman.

I was a sportsman and played cricket all my life.

I'm a sportsman, not a political man.

I think it's huge to set a good example. Whether you like it or not, as a professional athlete you are always going to be projected out into that spotlight of judgement. People are always going to judge every single thing we do and I think it's cool to just be real with yourself.

Because our father played professional soccer, being in the spotlight never felt weird to me and my brother. We always felt we could do anything.

Spring training is kind of my offseason. I'm preparing for the season, but the workload that I experience in spring is much lower than any other time of year. And so, I enjoy it.

A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.

I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won't say excel in them, but I'd do pretty good.

I'm happy to play for Spurs.

The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity.

I love playing at Madison Square Garden.

Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.

It doesn't matter whether I'm in an NHL arena, at a local rink, or on a sheet of ice in the middle of a baseball stadium: when I'm around the game, I feel at home.

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.

I'm an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn't bother me. I don't get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don't go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I'm not into fitness, but I feel I should start, as it's healthy.

Given this platform of being an Olympic athlete, I think it's really important that we stand up for what we believe in, and we speak out against things that we think are wrong and injust.

Training isn't fun for me. I do it because it's what my body needs, and I have a standard. It's a thing I make sure I do.

My standard training week, there's a lot of training in there. I have a high-performance coach who manages these spreadsheets of mine, manages my sessions and my loads. It's a very complicated process, and he puts me through about 22 sessions a week.

For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.

I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.

From a pure basketball standpoint, it's hard to say you wouldn't want Kawhi Leonard on your team.

As an athlete, I feel like I have a little bit of control - or a lot of control - of the situation. When you're the in the stands, you have no control of the situation.

Ricky Hatton stands out; he was known for being a good body puncher.

If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.