Shannon Sharpe Quotes

I would put LeBron on a track.

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.

They are very light footed in walking and in running, as well the men as the women: so that a woman thinks nothing of running a league or two, as many times we saw them do: and herein they have a very great advantage over us Christians: they swim with an expertness beyond all belief, and the women better than the men

I do a lot of things well, I'm very athletic, I play against guys who are also very athletic.

I believe I can outrun most everyone.

We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.

It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.

Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and he's improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do.

If you look right from the beginning of the season I've been very competitive.

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.

I want to be up front racing.

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

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.

In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.

I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.

I'm happy to race against anyone.

I live to be in these matches.

I'm a lot bigger than Faber, I'm pretty sure I'm a lot stronger than Faber and I'm pretty sure I'm a lot faster than Faber.

Of course it's a nice challenge to compete against a grand prix winner.

At primary school, it was always me and this other girl, Lauren, who would fight over who was the fastest every year. I was quicker, but for some reason, she always got the glory leg in the relay team. That used to annoy me.

You want to see how many races you can win, you want to see how many laps you can lead.

I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'

I just love racing: I'll even race you to the door.

I really want to test my athletic ability, my toughness, and my skills against those guys who are in my ballpark size-wise.