Athlete Quotes

If I could play this game at a decent level, I'd come back and play.

I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far.

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

A month before the season, I don't order fries with my club sandwich.

Every day is a great day for hockey.

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.

Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you only cheat yourself.

In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.

Maybe during the last sprint, sometimes you can lose, sometimes you can gain.

Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.

It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.

It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stage in my career, when there is an opportunity, albeit a small one, of being on the team, what a great way to possibly end my career.

I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no.

I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.

But I'm still not 100% convinced that Roger Clemens took steroids. I'm not.