Quotes about Athletics

The biggest challenge of my career has always been to improve my timing, and it will always be so.

I'm 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

All I can do is play as hard as I can play, make as many plays as I can make and try to help my team win football games.

I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

Wrestling is a business, it is show business and wrestling championships are props.

Rather than missing the medal, the overall message from across the Indian contingent was my effort proved that we can win an Olympic medal.

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.

I'm a huge tennis fan, so the game I play the most is 'Top Spin.' You really have to know how to play tennis to get good at this game - whether you want to hit a forehand or a backhand, when's the best time to hit a slice - it's so real.