Athletic Pursuits Quotes

I've always just wanted to play ball, that's all. I didn't want to do no interviews, because I didn't want to be bothered with reporters.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.

I know this: the opportunity to play, when that leaves, it is over.

I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.

I don't think my experience with professional football has been what you'd call normal but I don't regret it.

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 can't imagine what I would be doing if I wasn't swimming. It is what I want to do now; it is what I want to do in the foreseeable future, and that is what I'm focusing on.

When I came to BYU, I had no idea what I wanted to study. It really was a decision based on football. I wanted to come here and play football. The decision has turned out to be so much more than football.

I wasn't concerned with the money stuff; I only wanted to play football.

I recognized from a young age that I wasn't a football player; I played football.

I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

We have to get to a point in this country where our top players are seeking out the most challenging environments.

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.

I really didn't want to play basketball for the longest time, but I just wouldn't stop growing. But I always wanted to be a professional soccer player.

I've put football behind me.

Boxing life is very interesting life; it opened many doors for me around the world, but now I am ready to invest my energy and my experience and my power for the future.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

I'm playing golf. I ride my mountain bike. A lot. I think it's very important for me and other people my age to continue to exercise.

I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.