Quotes about Athletics

I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Sports provide us with dangerous metaphors. A sporting contest is a contest: a game of winners and losers.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.

Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Wrestling is an art form.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

I'm very good at drawing fouls.

I started drinking BodyArmor as a daily deal.

I have always eaten well.

I like to enforce myself in the run game. It's something I have control over.