Sports Reality Quotes

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

The reality is that players can't play forever.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

I tell the players all the time: 'There is no magic play.' Players make the plays.

First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

In hindsight, I'd love to be undefeated still, but that's not what this sport is.

When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I began to realize my days in the sport were numbered; the reality was I would never be a pro.

Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.

Come on, everyone wants to win a championship, but a lot of players have had great careers without one. Sometimes it just doesn't happen for whatever reason.

I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

You can't win every year. This is impossible in England.

Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible.

Crashing is part of the sport. It sucks when it happens, but that's the way it is.

There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.