“I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years - and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team.” FeelsTryingYearsHas BeensMadeDifferentEnoughStrongEnjoyTeachWorryTeamConceptsAthleteCoachesStrong EnoughNot Worrying Author:Melanie Roach
“I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.” IfsHas BeensActorsSportsFansCallingHollywoodAthleteConvincedCould Have BeenSports FanPro Athlete Author:Jamie Foxx
“As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.” IfsLittlesHas BeensMightKidsNaturalWhiteHellHappenedMomDadInvolvedRedPressureMy DadAthleteMy MomLittle KidMight Have BeenMom And DadCaliberBeing A DadStepmothersSprinters Author:Brian J. White
“It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.” YearsHas BeensWholeAbleFacesFightingGoalHurtAspectAthleteBoxesRingsHardestFighterBoxingMentalityHardest ThingThrough The Years Author:Cara Castronuova
“I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.” LittlesHas BeensI CanFeelingsWishRoomsWalkingAthleteBoxersGood Feeling Author:Adam Sandler
“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsHas BeensImportantStatesReasonSeemsPoliticsUnitedLeaderOpinionMillionsUnited StatesMediaPolicyProveMouthsImportancePaidAffairAthleteIgnorantTreatedRationalDeclineMistakenEntertainersRational ThinkingProfessional AthleteForeign AffairsIdolizedDomestic Policy Author:Robert A. Heinlein