Metta World Peace Quotes

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

If it wasn't for finding out that my right leg could kick a ball really far, which is what I did, I am 100 percent certain that I would be attempting to be or would be a professional wrestler.

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.

I had a little bit of expectations just to be not terrible, because you can't be named so similar to a sport and not be at least adequate at that sport. I don't think there's been expectations to be really good, because my parents never put that kind of pressure on me, but I had to be at least decent.

Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.

I was in the top 1 percent of football players. Indie guys are in the bottom 95 percent of wrestlers.

I've played a jock a lot, but pretty nuanced jocks.

We think Eli is taller and handsomer now that he's won the Super Bowl. Imagine what would've happened if [Jaws] won the Super Bowl.

Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

Money doesn't always define basketball.

Fans and reporters, they don't get that ever since I was five, all I've done is competed against something. I always had a goal. Then, whenever you hit a point, there's a point in an athlete's life where it's like, 'Is it still worth it?'

The prostheses do not run the race on their own: there is an athlete who does the work, and the prosthetics do not make a significant difference to the time.

It's not easy for a coach to deal with a player who is in slow decline.

I never - in my dreams, doing track in high school, I didn't imagine it would turn out like this.

I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.

A lot of freshmen will come in and say they can do what Carmelo did, but not everybody is Carmelo Anthony. He was a special player. Syracuse was a great fit for him.

If you see Michael Johnson running a race, and he beats someone by three strides, that's really dominating, but it's beautiful.

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

The gold medals from world championships and National Games prove the efficiency of my daily training.

I've always been a scorer. So when I went to Arizona, I led the team in scoring both years.

When you have a son in football like Anton, it will always be deemed as if he got the prop up and given the contract, no matter how hard he works. So much so that when he was offered a deal at Chelsea, I advised him not to take a professional contract.