Adam Thielen Quotes

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

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.

I have a lot of competitive juices, and I want to go out and compete on the football field every day.

You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.

I love sports, and I'm a hugely competitive person.

I think probably all of my determination and eagerness to want to play professional sport came from my family.

I do a lot of things well, I'm very athletic, I play against guys who are also very athletic.

I want to play football at a high level.

As a cricketer - or any sportsperson, for that matter - you like yourself to be tested and get better all the time.

I'm not here just to walk two rounds or four rounds and just show up. I want to be able to be competitive, and I truly believe I can still be competitive when I'm playing well and feeling good.

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

I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the passion I had for track where you want to do an individual sport and be the best, I think - there's nothing that can replace that.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

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.

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

You know, I stopped being competitive after I played football.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.