Athletic Advantage Quotes

The best thing about being 6'9'' is that it helps with my tennis game, especially with my serve.

People say that because I'm short I get a lot more skid off the pitch.

I just have that extra boost in games. I don't know why.

Forwards are either too tall, and I'm too quick for them, or guards are too small, and I shoot over them.

Outdoor tennis plays into my strengths a little better.

My strength, by default, is my size over corners and my hands, which I know is in the job description, but that really matters.

Look, there's no proof that athletes like us who may have higher testosterone levels are benefiting from this natural human body trait.

I think playing the 5 is an advantage for me. I'm much quicker than a lot of the other centers in our league.

In golf, just because a person is big and cut and ripped, doesn't mean they have a physical advantage.

I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

I added a new strength training regimen in my training, and I feel like I've become a much stronger, more dynamic athlete. That makes me much more dangerous against anyone.

The glory of the big catch is applied more at wide receiver, and tight end would be an even match at my size. It's such a huge advantage being on the outside.

Psychological edge is massive in sprinting.

I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.

I think one thing I had going for me that a lot of rookies didn't is that we played 15, 16 games every year in college.

I definitely think the way the game is transforming, becoming more and more athletic, guys are great athletes out here and relying on the physical skills more than their tennis skills, almost, sometimes. So for that reason, matching up with some of these guys, I can't keep up.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

There are athletes out there trying to get every advantage they can, including things like muscle and low-fat percentages. I feel if I'm the better fighter, I'm the better fighter.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations. Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

People aren't used to guarding this kind of size and I'm able to add a little finesse to my game so it has flavor and I'm a playmaker so I can create for my teammates and when I have to finish I'm gonna finish.

I guess what I've been told makes me dangerous is my height and length, so I just use that.

When I see a guy on the football field huffing and puffing, I know I got an advantage over him.

There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

As naturally athletic as I'm gifted to be, where certain things came easily, I always rely on my brain first.