Roy Nelson Quotes

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

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

I played all sports when I was young. I was into wrestling, basketball, baseball, football, and I ran track. But wrestling was my main sport because there was no criterion height-wise.

I'm lanky and I've always been lanky, but I was a really good athlete. Everything I've ever done in sports, I've done at a high level. I had a passion for what I was doing, and I had to be the best at everything.

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

I always wanted to become a cricketer.

When I watched the Premier League on the telly, I didn't expect it to be that hard. The opponents are all physically strong, real athletes. It wasn't like that in Germany. You must be prepared for it. But I prepared myself for it.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

I graduated with about 23 people, so if you were the least bit athletic, you kind of had to play everything. So I played baseball, basketball, football, ran track, and played golf.

I had a little bit of expectations just to be not terrible, because you can't be named so similar to a sport and not be at least adequate at that sport. I don't think there's been expectations to be really good, because my parents never put that kind of pressure on me, but I had to be at least decent.

You need a little bit of experience to do well in the Olympics.

I feel like I should be an NBA player.

You want to achieve the most you can in the short period you have in your career as a professional footballer.

In professional sports, you live in the moment, and that's what I love about it.

I had never played a team sport when I was younger.

At 14 I was the fastest runner in Denmark. I was nearly a professional goalkeeper. I could have been the rival of Peter Schmeichel.

I was a better hockey player than I was a baseball player.

I'm an athlete; my dad had made sure I played all the same sports as boys growing up, so I was always super competitive.

I've played the game for 23, 24 years. Four months off, I'm not going to lose it.

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

I started playing soccer when I was 4 because my sister was doing it. It was my first organized sport, and my parents thought this was a great way to get coordinated and be part of a team. I had an array of options but eventually figured out soccer was best for me.