Michael Pena Quotes

I'm interested in all kinds of sports. I'll glance at the front page and then go straight to sports and then I'll come back to the rest of the paper.

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

In the morning, I reach for the sports page.

I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

When I started wrestling, I was still in high school.

But wrestling used to be the same as boxing or mixed martial arts. It used to be about conflict, having a fight, who's going to win.

Growing up as a wrestler, especially in practice, I think you get used to competing without much of a crowd around.

I have a lot of respect for every opponent. I don't know if there's just one who I say, 'that guy intimidates me.' When I was young and first came into the league, Ray Lewis was that guy. I was young.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

I would put LeBron on a track.

You can see something on film, but until you're really out there playing against somebody and you see him for the first time, you don't really know.

Training is my life. It's all I've known since I was in second grade, when I started wrestling.

When I wrestled, I always considered myself an athlete and a wrestler.