Sport Longevity Quotes

Sometimes durability's better than ability, especially in this crazy sport.

A life of a sportsperson is approximately 14-15 years long and fatigue will be a part of it, but they have to manage that.

In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous.

I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.

I definitely find myself, as I get older, a lot more aware and concerned with the health of the sport.

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.

Ideally, I want to get out of the sport at least when I'm 30-31. I don't want to be one of those guys who stays around too long, so I want to get as many fights in as I can.

You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and you can't do this in basketball or football or baseball. But in golf, it's a longer live sport.