I would never do 'Dancing With The Stars,' because it's just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.
'Ali' is the story of a lower middle-class golfer who becomes a champion. I find the game very interesting and would like to continue playing it regularly after the movie is wrapped up.
I played basketball, and I loved it. But I never thought of it seriously as being a professional.
Some people really think I'm an ex-pro player.
I never had an amateur career; I didn't go to college in America; when I came out on tour nobody knew who I was.
I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.
I'm an amateur.
I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
Prizefighter changed my life in so many ways, and I was dying to go into it despite me being the least experienced.
Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.
You're only a first-round pick for one year.
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.
I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
I liked being Eddie the Eagle, but I also like being Michael Edwards, plasterer and general builder.
I just stumbled into acting; my first choice indeed was music and sports.
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.
I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.
The thing that people don't know about me - I actually boxed amateur for a few years.
Sometimes you see me on the pitch, and you think I'm playing on the street.
