Ndamukong Suh Quotes

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

The great thing with Usain Bolt is he fell into great coaching, so his talent was exceptional from Day 1. You can coach technique and structure, but not talent.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

I think I have just as much talent as anybody when it comes to the 100 or 200.

I am more aggressive than others, being a sportsman.

I've played a jock a lot, but pretty nuanced jocks.

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.

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

I like to think I'm pretty smart with what I was able to do academically, but whenever I get on the field I turn into the Incredible Hulk and I am unstoppable.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

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.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

I had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no skill, when this big, good-looking guy came up to me and told me I could be great.

I'm somewhat of a masochist at heart. I like to sweat. I come from a very competitive sporting background - my dad was a world-champion surfer - so it's always been a part of my DNA. I do a lot of soft-sand running, hiking, yoga, and boxing, and I compete in triathlons.

I've seen a lot of athletic juggernauts throughout high school, college, even the NFL who can't play the game.

Wrestling just comes naturally to me. It wasn't like there was this moment where I said, 'This is what I'm going to do.' It's just what I did. It was my life.