Athlete Quotes

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.

I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

Your best penalty killer is your goalie.

If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.

If a horse won't eat it, I don't want to play on it.

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.

I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.

I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.

Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.