Paul Gascoigne Quotes

I just want to go out there and play to my full potential, and play a healthy season, know what I'm saying?

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

A fit player has good and bad times during a season, and you have that in rehab, too.

As a footballer, you just have to try to learn what you've done bad and what I could do good.

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

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

I mean, coming into this season I was just hoping to come back, stay healthy and help the team.

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.

You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

Do I think I can take 20 carries now? Well, I think finally last week and this is week was probably the first time I could probably say, yeah, I could take 20 carries and go do some damage.

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

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.

Staying more controlled mentally stemmed from taking my fitness more seriously. When you're doing track work, sprints and so on, it's pretty painful, but that does make you feel better prepared and therefore mentally stronger when you're going into a match. You know, without a doubt, that you are strong enough to last.

I push myself to the limit to do what I most like doing, which is playing football.

I have to work hard. I have to get fitness back. If I get game time - which is always different to training - I have to work hard on my game and get confidence again.