Sports comparison Quotes

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

My body size and everything was perfect for being a heavyweight wrestler rather than being a linebacker.

I dabbled in football myself until the age of 14, but I didn't have as much love for the sport as I did track and field. I would never have been good enough to take it to the highest level.

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.

I can throw a football all day and my arm doesn't get tired. If I throw a baseball more than a certain amount of time, it's going to get a little sore.

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world!

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

The reality is, like, women's basketball players are playing against women. And we're all in the same boat the same way men's sports is.

The French league is a bit below the English. But I think life in Paris is more beautiful.

I was a really good youth boxer, and I enjoyed the sport very much. Once I actually started to play the trumpet, it is very similar to boxing. Most of the great trumpet players boxed: Miles Davis was a boxer, Wallace Roney is a boxer, Terrence Blanchard is a boxer. In a boxing ring, no one can help you. It's just you and the other guy, and your job is to get him out of there, to outscore him in the best sense of it. When you learn to box, the first thing they teach you is to protect yourself at all times, and some people also learn that they like being hit.

Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.

I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off.

Boxing is kind of like football in that you test each other's desire to be there.

The cool thing about pro wrestling is we do a lot more acting as far as characters in general than MMA. I know a lot of people like the MMA fighters because they like the rugged look.

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

In sports, stats count. Music? Not so much.

Do I think my wrestling is the best? No, I think it's up there around the top.

It is my hope that Babar Azam will become a bigger player like Virat Kohli.

I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race.

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

Golf is so different than football, in many ways. I think that's why I enjoy it.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.