Urijah Faber Quotes

I was an All-American at three different weight classes in college. Started off at 149, then 157, and then finished up my senior year at 165.

When I wrestled in College, my team was very good.

If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

From the perspective of everything I went through to have played in four NFL games, it was one of the best experiences of my life.

I have kind of reached the pinnacle of wrestling.

You know what, I was one of the top 25 amateurs in the world. I had a pretty good college career.

Once I started wrestling, I really got into it, and I just knew that I wanted to do that - I wanted to wrestle all the way through college.

I grew up dreaming of being a Hurricane and I'm so proud of playing the number of games I have for them.

As a thrill in my career, the Olympics rank right up there with my two NCAA championships at Duke.

I turned pro as a wrestler a few days after my last football game.

City has helped me and Chelsea has helped me to be in the national squad.

That's why I'm here at UCLA - to help them win a national championship.

I was a very good athlete: actually professional in the sport of handball.

The bottom line is I'm a football player, and I played three years of college football, and I produced all three years. I also got better every year, and I just felt like it was time to move on.

I've had a different career than a lot of different quarterbacks, but this has been a career that I've loved and a position that I like being in.

New York, specifically, has been very good to me throughout my wrestling career.

In college wrestling, you see a lot of talented athletes come in and fail because Division I class wrestling is the pinnacle of wrestling in America.

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.

My game from college has translated into the pros.

There are a lot of great players that never got a chance to play for a national championship. And I got a chance to play for two.

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

I had a fantastic career. I loved being a professional athlete.

I guess every athlete has in the back of his mind being good at a sport and making it big.