Quotes about Athletics

We got in the ring and wrestled almost every night and didn't have many days off... The only thing I knew for certain when I got in the ring was exactly how I went in. We told a story and the match was the story.

I used to run barefoot in my village some time back. Now, I have a branded shoe with my name on it.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

I play 'MLB 2K,' 'Madden,' and some old-school 'Mario Kart.'

I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else.

I've been doing the sport since I was 5 years old. And if I don't have support behind me, it's just a dream and it will not be able to turn into reality.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

I was in the football, rugby, cricket and hockey teams at school; bit of squash. Tennis obviously.

The Olympics represent a global standard - for men, for women, for athletics.

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.

In France, sometimes, you have some players or coaches say, 'If we go there, and we come back with one point, it's okay.' Here? No chance of this! Everybody wants to win. I think every team is playing to win matches, so the game is hard and fast, intensive. I really like the Bundesliga for that.