Joe Hart Quotes

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

Mike Brown wanted to hire me to work with LeBron in player development.

I had to decide whether I should try to play pro football after high school or try to pursue my powerlifting career.

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

I hope so. God, I've practiced so much that I you don't want to be worse five years later. I feel I have a great game today. I know how hard it is to pull off those great shots, and I know how easy it is to miss, so I'm more aware of these things. But I'm so happy I'm at the age I am right now because I had such a great run and I know there's still more possible.

We have all the money in the world but do not realise how important the body is. A player on average has a seven year professional career, 10-15 if everything goes right. You have to do everything possible to be at your maximum.

When I was 21, I did not have that much pressure. I was sitting down on the bench... you know... cleaning Sir Vivian Richards's boots or doing something... getting ready to play international cricket.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

The key for me will be to play as long as I can and hopefully to be physically like Roger when I'm 36.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

As an international cricketer, you have to keep reinventing the wheel, being consistent is part of it.

I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

I've played for a great club in Corinthians and been successful. I moved to Shakhtar and that turned into a great move too.

When I was coaching in Turkey, my players played well.

I was a footballer for a long, long time.

People just have no idea how strange and surreal a football life can be.

A life of a sportsperson is approximately 14-15 years long and fatigue will be a part of it, but they have to manage that.

I knew I was going to be a sportsman.

If you told me as a ten-year-old kid, loving tennis as I did, that I'd be plagued by injuries and have to finish early I'd still have chosen this life.

I started to study psychology but had to stop when I got into the first team.

When I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.

When I first came to England to play I saw coaches having a go at players when they made mistakes and they would literally be talking them through the game.