Athlete's Dilemma Quotes

If I would have chose baseball, I think I would be missing the hell out of football a lot more. For me, I wish I could do both.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

But I'll tell you this: When I lose my athleticism, it's time to go.

It's a big decision to pick what country I'm going to play for.

I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.

Too many fighters stay in the game for too long. They stay because it's awfully hard to walk away from the roar of the crowd. Really hard. You live for that and so you stay too long. And you might have a wife and kids to feed. So you keep fighting because you don't know how to do anything else.

A sort of sadness shall always remain in my mind that I was not allowed to retire while playing, but anyway, it's all a part of life for a sportsman who, while playing, never realises when he should retire, but he starts thinking about it when he is dropped.

I didn't want to be one of those ex-pros, aye hanging around. I think that's wrong.

The athlete needs money to prepare for a fight and to perform well. How are you going to prepare well if you have to have another job to make money?

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.