athlete quotes

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don’t have no exit strategy. It’s just living in the false reality that it’s going to be like this forever.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.