Athletic Endeavors Quotes

After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.

With the way I fight, the UFC's not stupid. For one, they probably know that they're don't have me forever.

I know this: the opportunity to play, when that leaves, it is over.

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

I realise every swimmer has a shelf life. No, I haven't given any thought to when I will retire, but I also know I won't be able to swim forever.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

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

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

I can't play football forever.

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.

I'm not going to be boxing forever, but I've put no time-cap on it, really.

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

I'm somewhat of a masochist at heart. I like to sweat. I come from a very competitive sporting background - my dad was a world-champion surfer - so it's always been a part of my DNA. I do a lot of soft-sand running, hiking, yoga, and boxing, and I compete in triathlons.

I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.

I am a sportsman, not a brand ambassador, besides being the first goalkeeper of Adidas.

Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.

There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

My wife asks me daily to leave wrestling, but I will not leave my favourite sport. I will train others.

Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.