Pro Sports Quotes

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

I thought if I could play 10 years in the league, it would be a great career more than I could ever hope for in my wildest dreams.

Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.

I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.

It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

As bad as some of the teams in the NFL seem to be, they all have way more talent than any college.

You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It's hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football. You can't keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren't always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

I had to decide whether I should try to play pro football after high school or try to pursue my powerlifting career.

I'm not like some guys who, if the Ravens lose, are ready to jump off the top of M&M Stadium. There are other things in life besides pro football.

To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma.

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

I told myself coming into the league that if I could play for six or seven years, that would have been a great career.

South Africa is a very pro-sporting country.