Tora Berger Quotes

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'

I knew I was going to be a sportsman.

I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

The N.B.A. is not an easy job. As you get older, you play this game for 82 games a year, and you play 11 or 12 years, your body tends to break down.

The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.

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

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

Sports life is very short.

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused.

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.

From a very early age, as far back as I can remember, I always played sports.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

I get very into my sports.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.