D. B. Sweeney Quotes

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

I'm very genetically blessed; I cannot deny it, but I work hard at keeping myself together. Yes, I have nice cheekbones and skinny legs, but I can't take any credit for it.

We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.

The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

That is what all the top players do and if you want to be the best you know you are going to get marked.

The footballer's career is very long and staying on the top for many years is always very difficult.

You can take your fitness seriously, but not yourself. That's the most difficult part: not to relax. That's the most difficult challenge I'm facing every fight.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

I'm not just a footballer; I'm a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.

I have enough confidence at the moment to say that I have the potential to play at the same level as Arjen Robben or Franck Ribery.

In Formula 1, you need a great level of endurance because the races are long, so you need a pretty good base endurance.

Wrestling introduced me to the idea that my body has a purpose besides trying to look five years younger for the first time.

You can't think you're God when you score an important goal or the worst player around when its going badly.

As long as I can play at a certain level, that's what I'll do.

If I could do this until I was 60, I would. This is a great life. All I do is train, all I do is work out, and prolong my life by the training that I'm doing, the things I have to do as professional athlete.

I'm really excited about Jordan Spieth. Like a great in any sport, when the moment is the biggest, he performs his best.

Maybe I wish I could be out there on the big occasions playing like I did at my peak, but I certainly don't miss the six and seven hours a day practice that went hand in hand with being world champion in the nineties - or losing to guys knowing that it would never have happened when I was at my best.

Since a very young age, I've dreamt of being a professional soccer player, and from a psychological and mental aspect, I've tried to prepare myself to be a good player.

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

If you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That's the way to go in sports.

The NBA is 95% mental and 5% physical, so it's more in my favor now with me being older.

I want to be a top player.

I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.

I hope I can make the decision to give up before my legs give up on me. I do not want to be embarrassing on the field and feel one day that I'm not at my best and players can beat me easily in duels.