Lynn Davies Quotes

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

In 2003, being Virginia Player of the Year was an amazing feeling because I think that was the moment I realized I could actually, really go far in my sport, and I was actually, really good at something. At that moment, I knew that I could play at a high level.

Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.

If it wasn't for finding out that my right leg could kick a ball really far, which is what I did, I am 100 percent certain that I would be attempting to be or would be a professional wrestler.

I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.

I think I chose wisely. When it came down to it, I knew I was a better goalkeeper than I was a bowler.

I've always been fast, it's God-given talent. I just try and use that to my advantage, but I'm learning more and more positionally so I don't have to rely on my pace so much.

I had a little bit of expectations just to be not terrible, because you can't be named so similar to a sport and not be at least adequate at that sport. I don't think there's been expectations to be really good, because my parents never put that kind of pressure on me, but I had to be at least decent.

Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.

I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics.

I don't know how you can be an All-American in this country and not be a good basketball player.

I always knew and my parents always knew I was destined for greatness. I didn't know what sport it was going to be in. I played football, baseball and wrestling.

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.

I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

For so many years, I wished it could have been different. I wished I could have gotten the opportunity sooner. I would have loved to see what had happened had I got to the NFL right out of college and all of those different things.

I have the tools and the size to be a good defender. I've just got to be able to put it all together.

I just turned 34 and feel like the best striker I've ever been.

I know my fastball command will get even better.