Athletic Pursuit Quotes

It was my dream to have an opportunity to become a professional player.

If my son wants a boxing career, I won't stop him, but I definitely won't push him. It's bad for a kid to be pressured.

I was 5-foot-8 when I graduated high school, but then I shot up to 6-foot-4 and got more into playing basketball.

Fighting, for me, is not a career - it's an opportunity. I'm going to take full advantage of it and do it as long as I can. As long as my body lets me and I'm healthy enough to do it naturally, I'll do it.

Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

I almost went with basketball over tennis.

Baseball is just my job.

What am I gonna do to be successful and provide for my family? I was like, I want to play basketball, I love basketball, but I'm too short. I'm not gonna cooperate in school... Boxing. I always found boxing, it always came back to boxing, boxing, boxing. Boxing, this is it, this is gonna be the thing gonna take me over the the top.

I always tell my dad he was training me to be a pro before he even knew it.

I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

I watched the UFC way back in the day, before there were time limits. I always knew it's what I wanted to do some day.

I wanted to be a huge soccer player. I wanted to be the best in soccer when I grew up. But my life changed. Out of nowhere, I decided to be a fighter.

When you're in sports, you have such a limited time and then, it's all over with, finished.

The most passionate fans are from India, and I hope that I can motivate more Indians to pursue wrestling - or any athletics, for that matter - and become champions.

For me, my passion is just to play the game, it doesn't matter if no one comes to the stadium to watch.

I didn't really have intentions of fighting in MMA; it just kind of fell into place. Once I started fighting, though, I loved it, and I walked away from kickboxing right away.

It was always baseball for me. This is what I always wanted to do.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

From nine, I started playing cricket. From 11, I knew this is what I'm doing.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

I found wrestling when I was 11 years old. About two years later, I convinced my mom to let me rent my first UFC tape. I was fascinated by the sport.

It had been a dream of mine to go to an Olympic Games since I was about seven years old. I didn't know I'd do it ski jumping, but that's how it turned out.

Football comes naturally to me, but basketball is a challenge, that's why I like it so much.