Roger Maris Quotes

But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.

I've trained since I started walking, I've played sports, I've competed. I've learned how to win, even if I haven't done it as much as I'd like.

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

I don't ever think about, 'Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.' No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I'm the best fighter in the world.

I want my players to go win and don't play bad football.

It's tennis. I'm still human. I'm not a robot.

Once you get out there and start playing basketball, whether the NBA or college or whatever arena you are playing in or who you are playing in front of, the juices start going, and you want to just go out there and play to the best of your abilities.

People should realize my job is not as tough as a forward playing 80 games and getting hit every day.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect to have success on the baseball field and the football field.

Kid Rock is a hell of an athlete.

I hope I will get a chance to compete in the Olympics.

A goal of making it to the Olympic Games has motivated me to work very hard in my sport.

I want to be great, I want to fight the best guys, I want to test myself, I want see what my limits are. I don't think a lot of guys in this sport really have that mentality.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the board. I'm talking about Pete Rose, Stan Musial, the real stars. Believe me, especially the way we travel today, flying all night with a game the next night and then the next afternoon, if you can play one-hundred and sixty-two games, you're a man.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

The game of soccer has been able to give me what I wanted out of life. I just remember being a total Tomboy and athlete as a girl, but never having a lack of opportunity.

Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.