Eric Bana Quotes

It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

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I kept going because I just love football. But you get to the point where you're not getting the rewards or seeing any progression and that knocks your enthusiasm. That's why I decided to come to Oxford.

I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

When you have a son in football like Anton, it will always be deemed as if he got the prop up and given the contract, no matter how hard he works. So much so that when he was offered a deal at Chelsea, I advised him not to take a professional contract.

I have progressed well since switching my training to Loughborough, and I feel I still have another 30% of progress left in me before my peak.

Over the long term, it is definitely my ambition to play in the midfield.

My dad coached 41 years, and I was always around coaches.

My idea is to return to Spanish football, I want to play for a big club in La Liga, that would be great for my career.

I didn't play JV because I went straight to varsity and started as a 10th grader - that was back in the day when you could not play varsity as a ninth grader. I went right from playing junior high football to varsity.

I get the normal stats, like tackles and pass completion and high-intensity runs. I get them after every game to see how similar they are to every game and to make sure I'm hitting the targets - or not too far away from them.

I don't ever think about, 'Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.' No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I'm the best fighter in the world.

I am a sportsman, not a brand ambassador, besides being the first goalkeeper of Adidas.

I want to have records on the field and do things on the field. That's what this is about.

You don't have to be a mathematician to work out that Rory McIlroy is going to have more chances at 25 than I am at 38. The clock is ticking. It would be nicer to be a multiple-major winner than a major winner. But it would be nice to be a major winner, at the minute!

There is such a rich sporting culture in Western Sydney, one that nurtured my sporting aspirations. Having Penrith Whitewater Stadium right at my doorstep was such an amazing advantage. It was a springboard to my success as an athlete, and I feel really fortunate to have grown up in this part of the world.

International rugby is a step up, and this is somewhere you come to get better and improve as a player.

A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.

Teams from Ukraine and Russia are getting better all the time.

My dad's always been a coach and one of my coaches.

In high school, I told my trainer Keith I wanted to be the No. 1 player in the country and the No. 1 draft pick.