Elana Meyers Quotes

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

It was a privilege to work with world-class coaches and fantastic players.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.

The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event.

No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the grass and being around your teammates. When you're around your teammates, you step it up a notch. It's just kind of instinctive you do that.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

I meet athletes from different backgrounds and see they share the same mentality and process as other athletes in other sports.

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

I've played the game for 23, 24 years. Four months off, I'm not going to lose it.

I think that's just the way football is supposed to be played, at a high speed.

You can get reps up in the gym as much as you want, hours and hours, but when it comes to a game, there's so many different aspects going on, so many different things.

We might have, with Hockey Canada, an Aero Bar, a chocolate bar. 'Okay we're going to play for this chocolate bar.' Here you have guys who made millions of dollars, they're professional athletes, and they will fight tooth and nail to win. It's not necessarily for the chocolate bar. It's the competitive spirit.

I was a coach for a celebrity cricket league. Whenever I trained or practised with them, I missed cricket.

I was a player in the Arena League, I was building relationships with that internship.

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

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

The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.

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.

I would like to do a sports movie.

I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job.

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.