Athletic Competitions Quotes

The world is filled with great sporting events.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

I am a huge sports fan and spend a lot of my time away from work watching sports, going to sporting events, stuff like that. So it is a big thrill to see these people who I have so much respect for and to find out that they're all really fun, super-nice people. It's very exciting.

They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight. Heavyweight title fights should be huge events, not an after-thought in a country most famous for producing Toblerones [chocolate].

The Olympics are just different. I'm not sure why; the pipe's the same size, the board you're riding is the same, you're competing against pretty much the same people. But the Olympics is the Olympics, and I know it's a really big deal.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

My dad is the biggest Lexie fan - ever since I was in gymnastics, he went to ever gymnastics meet, every cheer competition, every bodybuilding show.

I'm not really too big of a sports fan. Everything I watch is MMA, you know, great fights. But other sports, not really too much.

I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.

When the guys test for the steroids, they should have no more fights.

I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.

There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

I am a runner. Last October, there was a marathon here in Beijing. I didn't participate this time, but friends told me that the run wasn't prepared too well. The organizers had only arranged about three hours' worth of food and water supplies. Most people don't finish within three hours, however. Too bad for them - or so it seemed. In fact, however, even those finishing last were perfectly taken care of, particularly during the fourth and fifth hour when demand is highest.

Besides wrestling, in my younger years, I also competed in Olympic lifting and power lifting.

The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

Walsall have given City more than one anxious moment amongst many anxious moments

In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: track and field.

I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.