Eric Shanteau Quotes

I probably got more out of sports in high school than I did out of classes.

You must relate athletic experiences to life.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports.

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

There are good life skills to be had in the sport. It is a big positive to see young kids coming to the gym, training hard, looking up to the likes of David Tua, Shane Cameron, and possibly myself.

Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.

I think sports is good for goal setting, and I think it teaches you some important values.

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

I want to improve as a football player, but even more importantly, I really want to improve as a person.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

I wrestled when I was a kid. That started me off with the discipline, because making weight was my responsibility. It is a team sport, but it is also a solo sport.

It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Sports provides that tool kit to be successful in life. Because it's not always going to be smooth sailing.

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

Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.