Chris Mullin Quotes

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.

Going to that level, a lot of guys get to the NFL, and they don't make a long career out of it. The NFL is very hard. One percent of college athletes make it to the NFL.

I was playing 60, 70 matches a year in college. In the pros, unless you're winning, you're not playing that many.

Every college coach I talk to won't say it on record, but everyone's thinking, 'Should I go to the league?' Because you don't have the same requirements. It's different. The hours are different.

The regular season is awesome. It's fun. But postseason, that intensity and adrenaline you get from it is a lot.

Some college athletes don't want to turn pro, they don't want to take the cut in pay.

I love the Premier League, the quality of the players, the quality of the coaches. There are great challenges. But there are arms and legs flying off managers down there.

Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.

I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with National Collegiate Athletic Association, which serves as a sort of free minor league and unpaid promotional department for the pros.

It should be an easy, seamless transition for me to the NFL, and I'm looking forward to it.

It's a league where guys are trying to play to the best of their ability, whether you're a superstar or trying to make the NBA.

I wasn't a huge pro fan growing up; I wasn't loyal to any one team. Don't really know the divisions, even really the conferences. I know most of the conferences, but some of those, I really have no clue.

When you play in the Champions League, you are switched on - very, very smart and focused on every situation.

I've done everything I can at the University of Washington... I know I'm ready for the NFL.

In the Big Ten, we disliked the SEC because of the success they had.

Just to have the opportunity to play in the NFL, I think it's the biggest dream come true for me.

A Division I college wrestling team has so many guys at such a high level it'd be like having every single guy in the gym being a top 10 UFC guy, and that's who you're competing against every single day. Most everyone has been wrestling since they were 5 years old. It's been their dream to wrestle in college. There's such a high level of intensity.

What would be wrong with letting a kid go pro, and if it doesn't work out he can come back to college? What's the harm in that? The reason is the word "amateurism." The NCAA has to protect colleges' tax exemption.

I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.

I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.

Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

When you get to the rarefied air that people like Montana and Steve Young and other NFL quarterbacks are breathing, you can't believe the competitive, the cutthroat competitive nature of things.