I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.
When I started not training as hard and doing what I needed to do, everyone else improved without me improving.
Every year it happens. When I'm not putting up big numbers, I start hearing it - that I'm too old, that time finally has caught up with me.
The Jets seem to be a franchise in freefall.
When guys get to a certain age or certain level in their career maybe they don't do as much or work as hard so they start to lose some of that stuff. It's inevitable that at some point your going to lose most of what you've had.
Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.
I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.
I'm not the player I was.
I'm sure there's a long list of one-time all-stars, and I don't want to be on it.
Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.
I lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then.
Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
We find an organization that is deeply troubled by bad management, by sex and corruption and by a growing lack of confidence in its ability to carry out missions that are given to them.
Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
The fear among athletes and organizers is that sailing is becoming more associated with silver hair than silver trophies.
You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month.
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
