Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes

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

We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.

I'm not just a footballer; I'm a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.

Normal athletes couldn't do what Premier League football players can do.

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

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

You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

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.

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

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.

A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.

When I'm healthy and competing, I'm just a different type of player. That's the type of player everyone fell in love with.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.

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

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

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

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.