Athlete Quotes

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Umpires are necessary evils.

Yes, I would have rather finished up in Pittsburgh.

Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a lot of their players.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

Right now, I'm working with Super Bakery and we manufacture nutritional donuts called Super Donuts.

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.

It's not how you come out of the starting blocks.

I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs.

Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.

But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

And so, it's not a thing of how many carries, but were you effective when you did carry.

All I wanted to be was a player.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

I'm a big boy, and I'm a tough guy.

I have my detractors, no doubt about it. I look at it as a compliment.

She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's makin

There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win a gold medal, too.

The kind of support we have in Oklahoma City, it's the best in the NBA. Phenomenal. Beards in the crowd, the whole nine. The city is really something special.