A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.
Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface.
Regarding wetsuits, I always liked the Marilyn Minter quote, 'Everything's better when wet,' injecting some style into sports utility.
When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57. 72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it!
What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of the hole and thrown to the hounds, we have to be very concerned. Where we have hunts where foxes are bred for the sport of it, that is not pest control. That is pure bloody sport.
Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.
I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.
It was a very bold step for Sports Illustrated, and a lot of people are taking notice. I want it to be so normal that people don't even notice anymore.
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.
The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes.
I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.
For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.
But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.
You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.
That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.