Simon Sinek Quotes

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

I don't ever think about, 'Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.' No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I'm the best fighter in the world.

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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.

My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.

Fans and reporters, they don't get that ever since I was five, all I've done is competed against something. I always had a goal. Then, whenever you hit a point, there's a point in an athlete's life where it's like, 'Is it still worth it?'

In 2003, being Virginia Player of the Year was an amazing feeling because I think that was the moment I realized I could actually, really go far in my sport, and I was actually, really good at something. At that moment, I knew that I could play at a high level.

I always knew and my parents always knew I was destined for greatness. I didn't know what sport it was going to be in. I played football, baseball and wrestling.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

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.

There have been great champions in every generation.

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.

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.

People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone.

Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.

Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.