Athletic Life Quotes

I've been out for four months and when you have been out that long you start to miss the game and when you are out there you realise just how much you really do live it and enjoy it.

When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.

This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.

My skating career won't last forever.

I've had to make lots of sacrifices, particularly off the pitch.

For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.

My one big regret is that I didn't play on for ten more years.

I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.

I had a very interesting and exciting life as a footballer, for which I am grateful.

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

I'm going to stop playing football after 22 years.

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.

We train and work so hard in our sport, we would be nothing less than a warrior. Day in, day out, this is our life. It's everything. The Olympic dream.

You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

I had a beautiful life as a basketball player.

The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.

I would like to trade places with my sister. I think that would be really interesting. She's three years younger than me, and she's a gymnast. She goes to gymnastics, like, every single day, and that's a whole other world to me, and I think that would be very interesting.

I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.

Sports life is very short.

I always love the locker rooms that I end up in.

I used to hear about guys who played saying how difficult it is getting up in the morning, and now I'm experiencing it; those same effects.

For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

Unfortunately, the life of a player is not forever.