Athlete Quotes

I know a lot of people didn't understand why I came back, and people are still going to say it was stupid and it was the wrong decision. But I'm happy.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.

I am both honored and blessed to have had such a wonderful career with the L.A. Galaxy and I am thankful for everything the club, the fans and the community has done for me and my family.

I am a kid from the '70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.

Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.

You can't hit what you can't see.

I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!