Wayne Rooney Quotes

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You do talk about it.

For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.

Obviously, swimming is my strength, but I'm also good at fencing.

When I was younger, I thought I would finish in my mid-30s because that is normal for most players.

I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I've never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.

You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.

I do enjoy seeing footballers every day, being on the training ground.

Players from Holland and Scandinavia aren't divers, but those from Spain and Italy go down far too easily for my liking.

I'm not a troublemaker. People say, 'You got into a lot of incidents.' Yeah, but it was on the basketball floor.

Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.

I've been reading everything from serious articles about track to Ryan Lochte's single life.

People just don't want to pay to see players diving around.

Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

At 16, I was a slow right-back and wasn't good enough to play centre-back.

There's not that many tough guys that really talk trash in the NBA.

I am an athlete first and foremost, and it is vital for my competitiveness, my well being, and for my preparations for events during the European summer that I measure my performance against other athletes.

Every player has different skills.

I may not be the most athletic, but I understand the game.

I've been fortunate that I have good athletic ability, just in general. Quick, strong, able to bounce off players, trying to be strong in winning tackles, and annoying to play against, pretty much.

I know my game pretty well, and that is the secret to success in most sports.

Always that's a goal with everybody who plays a pro sport is to get stronger and faster and work on things that you lack.