Quotes about Athletics

All what I aimed for, except the Olympic medal, I achieved. That's why I want to start the Usha School of Athletics. I missed an Olympic medal, now I want to ensure that one of my students wins one!

U.S. and Russia - both coach their athletes from the grassroots level on and provide scientific training.

I'm not the biggest guy.

My body is for my tennis - it's for my sport. I'm not a model at all. I don't work out to go to the beach: I work out to play well and to do well on the court.

I've been picked up by Big Cass and thrown down the ramp onto metal. Have you ever seen that before in this business? No, no, that's a mighty big fall from the top of the ramp, straight down to the bottom onto concrete. He picked me up over his head and thrown me 14 feet to the ground.

If they're going to foul me, I'm going to step to the line and make some free throws.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.

That's the whole point of playing basketball - having fun.

I put my old player helmet on sometimes.

I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes - not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they're looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.

My stride is perfect for 15 steps till I cross the seventh hurdle when I switch to 17 steps.