Dan Gable Quotes

I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.

As long as I am able to compete physically with the younger players, I am going to play.

In my opinion, if you only show quality but no fighting spirit, you are half a player.

To play this game, you've got to have heart, and a lot of guys don't have it. I can sit here and say we all do, but we all don't.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.

I am the finest defensive player in the game.

To take what I have, they're going to have to have more than skill and technique. It's a lot of heart, a lot of determination. That's just who I am. I'm not messing around out there. I'm not giving it away.

Just wanting to play, I think that's my biggest attribute, just wanting to play through whatever I have to in order to go out and compete.

I think I have the ability to be athletic on both ends of the floor, so I just need to go out there and play with a lot of energy, a lot of enthusiasm.

Miesha is a great athlete, really tough. I know that.

I want to run every race with a big heart.

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.

What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.