Athletic Aptitude Quotes

I always prided myself on trying to break the stigma of the 'dumb jock.'

I think I have just as much talent as anybody when it comes to the 100 or 200.

Everyone's got talent at the level we're at. But being a smart, tough football player - there's a huge premium for that.

Sports is just something I have a knack to figure out how to play.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas.

Fencing and shooting kind of came naturally. From the start, I knew that I had it in me.

Some athletes can master two sports, but most are only good at one.

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

I'm just god-gifted: I have a talent. Even when I played basketball, no one ever taught me the game. I just played it. And with football, I just converted basketball to football and just played.

I have always attributed my abilities to play football and, really, all other skills and attributes, to God.

Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.

To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a huge compliment to say, 'O.K., you have physical abilities that are kind of above and beyond.' But at the same time, I feel like it diminishes the mental side of the game.

Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

If you talk about natural ability, I think Apollo's probably the most naturally gifted athlete of the new era.

I obviously know how good I was, and people refer to the modern game being tougher.

You gotta be the right size, height, speed - all those are a big factor in what position you play.

It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.

I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey.