Sport Transition Quotes

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'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had.

I crossed over into the WWE, but a lot of guys never did cross over.

My game takes time to adapt to grass; grass is a little bit different.

While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.

Baseball was always my favorite sport, and I thought it would be the sport I'd pursue for the long term. But I guess about my sophomore year in high school, I started really getting into football, and then it just took off from there.

I feel bad for guys in other sports that never work a job. Think about it, most MMA fighters have had to do something for money whereas a guy who was an athlete in college sport then went straight to the pros, he's never had a skill outside of sport.

I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn't touch nobody.

When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.

I was a wrestler and now I teach jiu-jitsu, but they're obviously different in many ways. However, they do kind of translate.

My dad was a baseball coach, and then I switched to softball. Baseball was all I knew until I crossed over. It never seemed like a big deal.

There's no question, I guarantee you, that you will see more NFL players getting into wrestling. They have the personality for it.

Even I'm a bit surprised with how easily I've adapted to European football.

I don't want to be considered a gymnast anymore.

In college, I was a running QB. We were a sprint out offense, so I had a big transition going into pro ball.

I used to play football, and then my wife bought me a fishing rod.

My life had changed from being a bricklayer to a regular goalscorer in League One.

Basketball was my whole life until I was 20 years old. All I knew was basketball. Then came golf, and I thought that's all I wanted to do then.

It might sound strange now from where I'm standing as a world boxing champion, but I harboured serious thoughts, at the age of nine, of putting my whole life into snooker. I remember being fascinated by the game, watching the likes of Steve Davis, and thought I would do it.

Maybe I'm in the wrong sport. I should go to Australia and play fast-pitch softball.

I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.