Henrikh Mkhitaryan Quotes

Physically I was not strong enough to play at Celtic and I know myself it was not my best time as a football player, for sure.

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

I play football in training all the time with my male friends, who are also professionals. But playing together in competition? I just don't see it. We have the ability, we have the technique, we have the tactical understanding, but there are physical limitations. You can't get away from that.

Every game is tough for me because the level of competition is so high in the Premier League, and every time you have to be at your best.

Football and boxing helped me immensely. Those sports helped me become dangerous.

The bigger, stronger, faster and meaner my players are, the better I coach.

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

I could have been Mr. America if I wanted to be, but I chose wrestling. I could have played pro-football, but I chose wrestling.

I grew up playing in lots of physical battles against lots of players. It's something I enjoy. I'm a big lad myself, so I feel I can handle myself in a battle.

I spent two great seasons playing in the Russian championship. I could have stayed there, but I went to the Premier League, which is much more competitive and requires much greater levels of fitness.

In the first season, I didn't contribute enough, but I really believe you need a year to succeed in the Premier League; it's the fastest league in the world.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

As a footballer, you always want to test yourself against the best.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.