Athletic Experience Quotes

When you're wrestling, it's such an amazing sport. I love it. I loved that I came from that background.

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.

In my day, 20-year-olds already had 150 first-team appearances under their belts.

I wrestled in front of seven people one time.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

I was a shortstop in softball, and a lot of times I had collisions with base runners coming in, so I definitely have scars.

When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

I've been playing semi-professional football since I was 14, really.

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

It was a dream come true to play for the University of Pittsburgh. My experience as a Panther is something that influences my life every day and I want to pay that forward.

The Olympics is one of the memories that will always be with me. It changed my life for the better.

When you're on the court with guys that know basketball, it's a universal language for us.

I cherished my time playing high school sports.

When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.

I wrestled in college at 165.

I just played football from an early age and didn't get involved in any other sports. We had tennis, cycling, ice skating - I'd like to have skated more, because it's so physical. Ten minutes on the ice and you really feel it in your back.

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

I am a Division I All-American wrestler, but I wrestled college wrestling matches, seven minutes long. If I was to go in there and wrestle for seven minutes of a fight, a 25-minute fight, you're not getting nothing out of me for the rest of the time.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

After everything that's happened, I'm sitting here in my last year of college football. I'm just happy. I'm in a good spot.

I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.

I've trained since I started walking, I've played sports, I've competed. I've learned how to win, even if I haven't done it as much as I'd like.

I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.