Cass Sunstein Quotes

Women's badminton has become so competitive.

I play a good physical game.

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

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete, it just took me a while to realise it would be in racing. I played field hockey competitively for Ontario since I was 13, 14. Then I tried for the national side and made it. But it was so competitive. The girls were just so big and strong. I was getting crushed.

I am happy to have played a match and break the rhythm of daily training.

Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you're an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.

In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.

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

You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.

What does it prove, running in the AAU meet?

A lot of people don't realise how competitive college sprinting is.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

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

I started playing when I was 16. Year in, year out, people expect 20 goals from me.

I knew I was going to be a sportsman.

I've always found the secret is to stay fit and treat sport as a profession. I chose sport as a passion.

I would put LeBron on a track.

If I play all the IPL games the whole season, I do get a bit tired towards the end.

I am full time athlete.

I was a very good athlete: actually professional in the sport of handball.

You can see something on film, but until you're really out there playing against somebody and you see him for the first time, you don't really know.

Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.

If you are a player and you don't really retire by yourself there should still be an opportunity to qualify for the national team.