Brooks Koepka Quotes

I've been good at the game of basketball my whole life, so I'm hoping I can get back to that.

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

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

Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

Every time I step on the court, I know I can beat my opponent.

I played professional tennis for about six years and I played football and handball in school as well.

You can't just be anyone who is off the streets and come do what we do. You have to train, and there has to be something within you. You have to have athletic ability... What we do is 100 percent athletic. I feel like it's one of the top athletic programs out there when you consider professional sports.

Having my dad play for the Falcons, what it did was really to expose me to a whole bunch of other elite-level athletes, which I think gives me an advantage and allowed me to understand what goes into sports. It is more than going out onto the field and going out onto the ice and competing.

The NFL, boxing, jiu-jitsu - I did that. I'm proven at what I can do.

I was a coach for a celebrity cricket league. Whenever I trained or practised with them, I missed cricket.

I may not be the most athletic, but I understand the game.

I know my game pretty well, and that is the secret to success in most sports.

I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

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

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

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

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

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

I was a borderline guy in the NFL.

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.