Athlete Quotes

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

I might be an ambassador.

I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.

I have no regrets.

I have always applied myself the same for club and country.

I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.

Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.

I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.