Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Athletes - Page 20

Right from my childhood I have been attracted by guns.

I'm very thankful and very blessed to have the opportunity to play this game.

Obviously I love Nashville, I love Tennessee. It's a great organization to play for.

When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o'clock.

Loyalty is a big part of football, and it shows if you are a real man or not.

If it were easy, everybody would have a gold medal, but they don't.

I hope to keep being competitive until I retire, and I hope that's here. It's Barca or nothing.

I was a terrible student. I didn't graduate magna cum laude: I graduated 'Thank you, Lawdy!'

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

What I miss the most is the locker room, the dinners after the games. The preparation, the sense of going out there and be a team.

I've learned to adapt to the pace of the English game and a different style of football in the Premier League.

It's all about being sharp and not taking too much damage. That's always the game plan.

I've always had a belief in myself and an ability to always do what I believe.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

I love the work, love the grind. I love what I have to go through to get what I want.

Every year is a roller coaster. I've enjoyed the struggle of having new coaches and having to prove myself over again. Being able to figure out ways to solve problems, to overcome obstacles - that's been fun.

I always try to associate Johnny Mundo, John Morrison, or whatever my name is with high quality.

It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.

A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.

I've day-dreamed about raising that Lombardi Trophy. I can see it in my mind.

I think scoring first is huge in the postseason.

I'm so grateful for all the experiences I've had; the life lessons I've learned along the way are just completely invaluable.

In knockout football, it's one bad game and you're out.

You've got to put in the work. And you've got to play with confidence. You've got to believe in yourself.

I don't drink occasionally. I don't drink on the holidays. I don't drink alcohol, period. Not wine, not nothing.

What I don't miss is the travelling, the late games, the back-to-backs, the not being able to sleep well. Being tired or sore, I don't miss that part at all.

In Mexico, I want to be known as the Aztec Warrior.

I've been blessed with athleticism, and don't get me wrong, I'm thankful for it. But I'm really grateful that I learned how to, without sounding arrogant, just suck it up and realize that even though I'm not at my best in a given situation, it doesn't matter. You still have to get the job done.

I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that's just me. That's how I live my life.

The likability of any player is always up for debate, and people will always use their own moral compass to judge Luis Suarez, but that's not something I tend to focus on. I concentrate on what he is like with me on a day-to-day basis, and he is a great man.

I don't like cold weather.

I've kind of grew to enjoy fighting legends that I got into the sport watching and admiring.

In the playoffs, it's win or go home. You might not have a chance to look back at a game and say, 'Man, we didn't box out here.'

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

A lot of people celebrate the '80s. I was a '90s guy. The best music, and basketball, was at its high in the '90s, with all of the best players, playing the best style of basketball in that era, and Michael Jordan winning six rings in the city I grew up in.

I am big fan of Arsenal.

I have a lot of people depending on me - even people I didn't know depended on me.

Everyone wants to believe Chris Paul is a good guy. They don't know he's a horrible teammate. They don't know how he treats people.

People think that being rich is all about having money. But the times I've had the most money is when I've been unhappiest.

Being a captain means a lot - it's not just about wearing the armband.

Keep feeding yourself with positivity.

Me being the best in the world, it doesn't mean that much to me if I'm not a good person at the end of the day, if I'm not setting a good example for other people to be better to each other.

My mother was an administrator at a nursing home, and my first job was working at a nursing home as an activities assistant. She wanted me to do it because it forces you out of your shell, and it's about giving back. That's something that I learned from my mother at a very young age.

Embrace the new, no matter how uncomfortable, and make it work for you.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

I was always very depressed, even when I was a youngster.

The most important thing is win enough games to get into the playoffs. Then, once you get into the playoffs, win.

My dad was just a little trailer trash white dude that worked his tail off, didn't have a dad. He started working at 14, didn't get to play sports. He dedicated his life to his kids to let us live our dreams.

It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.

My mentality as a competitor never changes.

All great empires die from within.

Anderson Silva, Georges Saint-Pierre, and Rodrigo Nogueira are some of the top fighters in the UFC among many other great fighters. The UFC has many of the toughest fighters around.

I'm a good crazy. A crazy good guy. Someone who makes the most of life.

When I'm in the gym, different training partners tell me that I've got great conditioning, and I tell them, 'Really? Because, I'm dying here.' I think that I'm just as tired as anyone; I just push myself mentally.

You don't want to play the whole game careful, but you certainly don't want to play careless.

I drink life's happy water, which is bottled at the divine source.

In football you need freedom to try things.

I'm a fighter, and I'll always be a fighter, and it's what I love to do.

I want to have an impact on the game. Instead of a sack, how about an interception for a touchdown? I could get 15 tackles. I'm just using those as examples, but any kind of impact would be fine, whether it's a sack or anything else.