Chris Bosh Quotes

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

I think the nature of the game can be very unforgiving and of course, the longer you are out of the game - this is a very fast evolving game and particularly with the media we have.

The NBA is tough. Everybody plays hard and every game is vital.

The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

To reach the biggest club in the world where there are millions of fans and a lot of pressure was a brutal change.

Times get tough sometimes, you lose cool. At the end of the day it is one of the most demanding and grueling sports.

God, it's such an unforgiving sport.

The Championship is a ferocious league, physically demanding, and it simply does not allow players the luxury of cruising through.

You can't take a night off in the NBA.

I know we had a lot of wars on the court. The Pistons - those were the roughest games I ever played in.

Formula One applies stresses to the mind and body that are very extreme.

At the highest level, you are playing the best from an opposing country, so the margin of error is very little.

It's not easy to be a footballer.

I am a fighter. I learned it at Genk in my first year when we were fighting against going down. Also, at Bremen last year, it was very difficult. We had to fight more often than not. I will fight again to earn my place.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

When you're outside in those elements, there's something out there that takes it out of you, so you work real hard. It was physically demanding, but in a very good way. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing, when things are physically demanding 'cause everyone is rising to the occasion.

This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.

It's hard to win in the league, because every team is good, they got players on their team. A lot harder than high school. It's competitive, and that's what I most love about it.