Tony Oliva Quotes

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

You have to remember one thing: Football is entertainment; it's not life or death. Once the game is over, you're already talking about next year and the draft. It's just entertainment.

I want to go to China or coach or play arena football.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

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

I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.

My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.

I'd like to play as long as I still love the game, as long as I'm still feeling healthy and playing well so a team would want me to play for them.

I've been around this game for a long time - a lot of plane rides, a lot of bus rides, a lot of pregame speeches, a lot of national anthems.

Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.

When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.

When you play for Liverpool and England, you have good players around you, and you want to compete with the best.