Robert Griffin III Quotes

There's so much that goes into being a pro athlete that people have no idea about.

People just have no idea how strange and surreal a football life can be.

Sports life is very short.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

We have all the money in the world but do not realise how important the body is. A player on average has a seven year professional career, 10-15 if everything goes right. You have to do everything possible to be at your maximum.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.

It's not easy to be a footballer.

Hopefully I can play until I'm 40.

I had dreams of being a professional rugby player.

I have a responsibility and a job as a guy who gets paid a lot of money, I'm expected to perform. And 82 games in 6-7 months is a lot, and it's hard on the body, and you're not gonna play perfect every night. Even Ray Allen misses shots, even LeBron misses dunks.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

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

I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.

Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

I do not forecast playing until 38 or 39.

It's either join the workforce or become a professional athlete, and I'd rather be a pro athlete.

People turn professional and they are not running as fast as they did in college because it is a lot different, but I wanted to make sure that I didn't have that kind of transition and always stayed on top.

Our job as pros is to walk a very fine line: be the best but stay healthy so you can continue to progress and be at the top. You can't push the sport and yourself if you're always hurt.

Playing until I'm 40 is definitely a possibility.

I want to play until I'm 38.

I told myself coming into the league that if I could play for six or seven years, that would have been a great career.