Sangram Singh Quotes

I believe now that I've cemented my spot as the best swimmer in the world, and I can't describe how proud that makes me. I just want to keep working hard and hopefully just inspire more youngsters to keep swimming and encourage South Africans to become a winning nation.

My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

I want to create as many opportunities as possible for people inclined towards sports.

I watched Tim Tebow and how he played and how he carried himself and the good that he did for the game on and off the field. I knew that's what I wanted to do.

Celebrities may get all the attention in the glossies, but when athletes set an example, their words are far-reaching - deep into the inner cities, across Mid-western farmlands, up and down coasts.

Ali was a legend of our sport. For me as a kid, he inspired me to represent myself like a champion in and out of the ring.

I was very much a student of the sport. I wanted to know everything, all the moves. It was the coolest thing I had seen. I started winning matches. Dads didn't want their sons to face a girl. Coaches didn't want to put any of their wrestlers up against me to be beaten by a girl.

You can't sign up for this kind of wrestling in school, so I went the football route first and I was successful at it.

There's been a lot of champions before me, and I'm sure there will be ahead of me.

I always talk about my dad because he was a coach, and I became a coach.

I want to win all the titles, be a reference for the team and for the fans, and I want to live my story at Real Madrid.

Growing up, John Terry was my obvious idol. I based my whole game on him.

I dreamed of becoming a world champion, I dreamed of becoming France's champion.

You go to the Super Bowl in your second year and you're like, 'OK, cool. I'll be back next year or the year after that.'

There is not a day I wake up and do not think of the World Cup.

The most passionate fans are from India, and I hope that I can motivate more Indians to pursue wrestling - or any athletics, for that matter - and become champions.

I'm excited to contribute towards U.S.A. Basketball's winning legacy and continuing its tremendous reputation around the world.

Being a professional athlete, we all want to win the title.

I didn't really get into the sport for fame. I didn't get into it to be this infamous guy that everybody worships. I got into this sport to make a difference.

I was always following my brothers. If my brothers hadn't played, I never would have picked up a racket. Tennis isn't the most popular sport in Venezuela.

I was a high school wrestler. I was city champion.

When I was growing up, I always liked playing football, and my mum always took me to football games. I owe her a lot. She was my pillar. She was the biggest influence on me.

Man, I competed 40 times in three months when I was wrestling, my whole life.

Steven Gerrard was someone I looked up to massively. I'd always try to copy him, right down to the boots he was wearing. It was his attitude on the pitch that stood out - you could really see how much he hated losing.

I was really good at a young age, but every day I had to walk in the house, and walk past my dad's jersey framed on the wall because he was an Olympian, so I was like, all right, I haven't done anything yet.