Tiger Woods Quotes

We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

One thing about Ron Artest, he's a hooper.

For every LeBron James that jumps onto the scene, or every Derrick Rose that does really well in year one, you have a lot of others that take time to transition. Those guys are just brilliant in their own way, but a lot of other guys need a little help along the way.

Even since I've been in the NBA, a lot has changed with the game.

I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

Now, if you're an NBA fan, you know what Vince Carter did. I came up with a line about him: 'Half-man, half-amazing.'

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport and made it better. I believe, with every generation, the sport has improved. Certainly, in the men's game, that has been the case. I think that I played Pete [Sampras] at his best, I played Roger [Federer] at his best.. I believe wholeheartedly that Roger and [Rafael] Nadal have pushed the game much further than myself or Pete ever did. Their options on the tennis court are considerably more than ours.

Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

I need more time to develop as a player and as a person.

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.

Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.

You get the kids today into the sport, and then they can't get to the "next level." I mean, come on, that's a bunch of junk.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

Since I first started playing basketball, I have just loved it, and nothing has ever made me lose that love.

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.