The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.
That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.
In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.
We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.
If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night.
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.
The one thing we have to remember about Fernando Torres is that he's a human being who has come in for an enormous amount of criticism, not least during the World Cup from people in Spain and around the world.
When you're a quarterback in this league, you're going to be talked about and it's going to be on a weekly basis.
I don't do social media. I'm not looking to get a death threat every time I miss a field goal. I'm just not going to put myself through that.
I feel much more respected in Europe than I do in the States from the press and from the people. Americans expect me to win every match I play.
The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse of the Tour de France.
It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.
It's hard being the NBA's sex symbol, but somebody has to do it.
I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!
Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.
Neymar is probably tired of hearing people talk about him.
I have lot of hopes from Virat Kohli and nation believes in him.
Black athletes are always under more scrutiny.
Everybody wants me to finally close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.
As an NFL player, and as a veteran in this game, no one cares what you're doing during the offseason. They only care about what you do on the football field.
People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.
I feel pressure every day. It is only pressure that I put on myself, but I would expect all professional sportspeople to feel pressure to perform their best whenever they are at work.
