Kevin Owens Quotes

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

The holidays are important, but the path I've chosen doesn't take that into consideration. I do what I can to enjoy them, but it's one of the sacrifices of being an athlete.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.

I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

I'm going to be wrestling for as long as I can. It's something I'm very passionate about and something that I love.

I'm no less focused than any of my peers. They live a different life. They go home; they are not pictured at events. I train just as much as them, maybe more.

I don't know if I will take the UFC title, but I will die trying.

It's been a lot of responsibility to be an ambassador for U.S. wrestling and the sport. It's a tough journey. There's a lot of obligations but also a lot of opportunity.

We have to work together for the good of the team, for trying to win games. That is what we train to do.

I'd like to wrestle for as long as I can.

Anybody who knows me knows that I don't just love this sport, I am in love with it. I am really in love with this sport. I am obsessed with boxing. I eat, breathe and sleep it. You know, I do it all; this is my life. This is not a hobby for me. This is a lifestyle for me, and I address it accordingly. I take it very, very seriously.

I feel like, I go out and play hard every day and I'm going to practice every day, I'm going to block shots.

From the time I was 11 until I was 23 and met my wife, wrestling was all I cared about. It was an obsession, and that's why I think I ended up making it. There was no other option for me.

The joy had been ripped away from me, but deep down, I loved the competition floor. And I thought, 'Gymnastics is literally the only thing I have.'

I've always been fanatical about wrestling from a young age, growing up in Newcastle, and I have been fortunate to start training, get opportunities, and meet the right people at the right time.

I've always tried to honour my dad and what he did for Yorkshire, which for him frequently meant putting the county's cause before his own. But my late boyhood, my early teens and my adolescence were full of net sessions and practice drills he never witnessed, ups and downs he never knew about and matches he never saw.

It's easy to say, and a lot of people pay lip service, saying, 'I want to win.' But, well, everybody wants to win. What are you willing to sacrifice to be able to win? Are you going to sacrifice money? Are you going to sacrifice playing time? You gotta sacrifice something.

It's hard to believe I was just seven when I started boxing but I've put everything of myself into it.