Michael East Quotes

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

All I want to do is improve as a player.

It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.

I feel like I have grown with the sport.

I improved enormously, on and off the pitch, over that year at Swansea.

Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.

When I came into Test cricket, I was good but not as good as I am now.

I wouldn't have become the player I have without my father.

I love watching players improve - even as a Little League coach.

I'm really focused on getting better as a player.

I feel like I've done a lot in this league.

For so many years, I wished it could have been different. I wished I could have gotten the opportunity sooner. I would have loved to see what had happened had I got to the NFL right out of college and all of those different things.

As a coach, the greatest passion you can have is for improving players.

Obviously, that's the thing any athlete wants to be able to do, to take weaknesses and turn them into strengths.

I would not be in the NFL, 100 percent, if it wasn't for basketball. I probably wouldn't be where I am without golf and baseball. Golf, for the mental side of the game, being able to focus on the now and take one shot at a time.

Being out there, as a 22-year-old, it opens your eyes up to the highest level of the sport. It can only do good things.

I learned a lot in my last year at Livingston and even more since coming to Leeds, as a player and on the sports science side.

Some guys seem to jump right out and win tournaments, but for me, I've been the kind of player who is getting a bit better each year.

I have improved my pace without losing on the swing. That is something I am really happy about.

Things for me really started to click right after my third year in the league. I sort of figured out that there were a few things that I needed to do if I wanted to get better - I needed to gain some more weight and add some strength.