Sports Archives - Pictorial Quotes

The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

Yannick Noah

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn’t make a cat.

Yannick Noah

Your child is happy. What else could you want?

Yannick Noah

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

Yannick Noah

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Yannick Noah

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

Yannick Noah

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

Yannick Noah

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

Yannick Noah

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

Yannick Noah

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

Yannick Noah

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

Yannick Noah

Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

Yannick Noah

It made me hungry. I feel like I’m in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I’m with a group of guys that are like my best friends.

Yannick Noah

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

Yannick Noah

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

Yannick Noah

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

Yannick Noah

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

Yannick Noah

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

Yannick Noah

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

Yannick Noah

I was six years old before I realized that there was something wrong with me… But I did have this crooked left leg, and my left foot was turned inward.

Wilma Rudolph

Down South, there was the old ‘ladies-don’t-do-such-things’ way of thinking. You couldn’t be a lady and a good athlete at the same time.

Wilma Rudolph

They would say, ‘If you run around too much as a girl, you’ll never be able to have children.’ The running was supposed to be too much strain for your body, and your body would never be the same again.

Wilma Rudolph

I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

Wilma Rudolph

After the scarlet fever and the whooping cough, I remember I started to get mad about it all… I went through the stage of asking myself, ‘Wilma, what is this existence all about? Is it about being sick all the time? It can’t be.’ So I started getting angry about things, fighting back in a new way with a vengeance.

Wilma Rudolph

When I ran, I felt like a butterfly that was free.

Wilma Rudolph

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Wilma Rudolph

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Wilma Rudolph

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

Wilma Rudolph

It doesn’t matter what you’re trying to accomplish. It’s all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

Wilma Rudolph

But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there’s always a way to achieve your goals.

Wilma Rudolph

Later on in life, I discovered that in order for me to be successful, I had to have a challenge. I can’t do a nine to five job.

Wilma Rudolph

There were good jobs, but they were never what I wanted to do. Somehow, people always thought of as a threat.

Wilma Rudolph

In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.

Wilma Rudolph

You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can’t go back to living the way you did before because you’ve been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.

Wilma Rudolph

No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I’ve always been positive, no matter what happened.

Wilma Rudolph

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph

The triumph can’t be had without the struggle.

Wilma Rudolph

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.

Wilma Rudolph

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I’m competing with is me.

Wilma Rudolph

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

Wilma Rudolph

I don’t know why I run so fast. I just run.

Wilma Rudolph

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

Wilma Rudolph

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Wilma Rudolph

The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.

Vince Lombardi

If you can shrug off a loss, you can’t be a winner.

Vince Lombardi

I’ll put the Packers’ best players on defense. It’s best for a team and good for its morale.

Vince Lombardi

I’ve never been with a losing team in my life, and I don’t think I’ll start now.

Vince Lombardi

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he’s got to play from the ground up – from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

Vince Lombardi

Some guys play with their heads. That’s okay. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

Vince Lombardi

If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.

Vince Lombardi

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Vince Lombardi

Nobody wants to give up good players.

Vince Lombardi

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

Vince Lombardi

They’d better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.

Vince Lombardi

Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.

Vince Lombardi

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?

Vince Lombardi

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Vince Lombardi

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Vince Lombardi

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

Vince Lombardi

I’m not afraid to die – it’s just that I had so much left to do in this world.

Vince Lombardi

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

Vince Lombardi

I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

Vince Lombardi

You don’t do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

Vince Lombardi

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

Vince Lombardi

The will to win is the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.

Vince Lombardi

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

Vince Lombardi

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

Vince Lombardi

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Vince Lombardi

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Vince Lombardi

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Vince Lombardi

Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Vince Lombardi

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

Vince Lombardi

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

Vince Lombardi

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Vince Lombardi

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Vince Lombardi

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Vince Lombardi

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Vince Lombardi

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.

Vince Lombardi

If you can accept losing, you can’t win.

Vince Lombardi

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn’t do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Vince Lombardi

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things – blocking and tackling.

Vince Lombardi

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Vince Lombardi

I don’t think there’s a punch-line scheduled, is there?

Vince Lombardi

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Vince Lombardi

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Vince Lombardi

If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

Vince Lombardi

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.

Vince Lombardi

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Vince Lombardi

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.

Vince Lombardi

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

Vince Lombardi

Battles are won in the hearts of men.

Vince Lombardi

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Vince Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Vince Lombardi

I can’t watch a Mayweather fight. I don’t find it exciting.

Usain Bolt

When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: ‘What is he going to do?’

Usain Bolt

I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.

Usain Bolt

The 100m is never stressful.

Usain Bolt

For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I’m always a little bit nervous.

Usain Bolt

My hunger is always there.

Usain Bolt

Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.

Usain Bolt

I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.

Usain Bolt

My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.

Usain Bolt

I’ve tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he’s cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can’t ‘forget’ to take them.

Usain Bolt

In track years… track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it’s really difficult.

Usain Bolt

The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that’s what it means.

Usain Bolt

My coach keeps telling me to say I’m not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don’t rush.

Usain Bolt

I definitely know I’m going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.

Usain Bolt

When I was younger, I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn’t focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it’s fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.

Usain Bolt

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I’ve watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

Usain Bolt

I don’t read a lot of books.

Usain Bolt

I really don’t have a favorite meal. I eat anything.

Usain Bolt

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

Usain Bolt

I think my acceleration is very good. That’s the key for me.

Usain Bolt

I know what I can do so it doesn’t bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.

Usain Bolt

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

Usain Bolt

It’s always a wake-up call to get beaten.

Usain Bolt

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Usain Bolt

Every season, for me, it’s like starting from scratch again.

Usain Bolt

There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.

Usain Bolt

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir . That sounds very nice.

Usain Bolt

I don’t think about records.

Usain Bolt

I don’t put myself under pressure.

Usain Bolt

I know what to do and I go and execute.

Usain Bolt

It’s a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

Usain Bolt

You can get beat any day.

Usain Bolt

You have good days and bad days.

Usain Bolt

I don’t even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can’t get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.

Usain Bolt

I just love dancing.

Usain Bolt

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

Usain Bolt

Yeah, I am lazy. There’s no doubt about that.

Usain Bolt

I don’t know the history of my sport. I’m not like those people who know everything.

Usain Bolt

I wouldn’t say I’m a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

Usain Bolt

I have matured a lot.

Usain Bolt

I will run against anybody.

Usain Bolt

I try to lead by example.

Usain Bolt

I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.

Usain Bolt

Come on… when you’re running, if you see you’re going to win, you’re going to celebrate.

Usain Bolt

My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.

Usain Bolt

Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

Usain Bolt

I’ve worked hard over the years, I’ve been injured and I’ve worked hard through it, and I’ve made it.

Usain Bolt

Where I’m from, there is no violence, pretty much.

Usain Bolt

I can’t really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

Usain Bolt

My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.

Usain Bolt

If you’re the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

Usain Bolt

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

Usain Bolt

I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

Usain Bolt

I like music a lot.

Usain Bolt

My brother is really, really slow.

Usain Bolt

People always say I’m a legend, but I’m not. Not until I’ve defended my Olympic titles. That’s when I’ve decided I’ll be a legend.

Usain Bolt

I’ve learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I’m gonna do after the race, what I’m gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.

Usain Bolt

But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn’t really bother me.

Usain Bolt

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

Usain Bolt

But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

Usain Bolt

If I get to be a legend, I’ve achieved my goal.

Usain Bolt

Repeating is harder than anything else.

Usain Bolt

Sometimes you lose sight of what’s going on around you.

Usain Bolt

I’d like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.

Usain Bolt

I don’t think limits.

Usain Bolt

I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

Usain Bolt

As long as I’m in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

Usain Bolt

I don’t like losing anyways.

Usain Bolt

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

Usain Bolt

For me, I’m focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I’m working on it.

Usain Bolt

People like to see showdowns.

Usain Bolt

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you’re growing up, you’re walking down the street, you’ve got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can’t pass one person.

Usain Bolt

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you’re famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

Usain Bolt

I work hard, and I do good, and I’m going to enjoy myself. I’m not going to let you restrict me.

Usain Bolt

I’ve not been paid millions of pounds for any fights. I’ve not made any money out of boxing.

Tyson Fury

All I care about is providing and living every day. I don’t care about world titles, being a legend, or being a hero.

Tyson Fury

I just want to make money, get on with my life, and be involved in good fights. If I’m not going to be involved in good fights, then what’s the point being a boxer?

Tyson Fury

I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad’s always dealt cars, and I’ve always been brought up around them. They’re one of the things I’ve always been interested in.

Tyson Fury

I could drive from the age of nine. My dad had his car pitch at home, and we used to drive the cars around the land, take them up to the tap, wash them, and reverse them back.

Tyson Fury

A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I’d finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing.

Tyson Fury

People can say what they want about me. But I’ve got a big heart and will keep going.

Tyson Fury

I’ve got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I’ll make it extremely hard.

Tyson Fury

It’s not about how much money I’m getting paid. It’s just a love of one-on-one combat. I feel I’m at home. I love the ring entrances, the talking. I’m the master of it all.

Tyson Fury

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It’s people who haven’t been anywhere, haven’t seen the world.

Tyson Fury

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it’s just stupidness, isn’t it?

Tyson Fury

I’m looking forward to fighting Chisora, getting him out of the way, and then fighting Klitschko for all the belts, but I don’t think Wladimir is going to take the fight.

Tyson Fury

I’m like the man who is always supposed to fight, but never ends up fighting. He just spends money.

Tyson Fury

All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.

Tyson Fury

I’m a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That’s all we do: we fight.

Tyson Fury

As you know, I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. And while I’m abroad on training camp, I train three times a day, often for two hours a time, and I haven’t got time to respond to all the people that ask questions.

Tyson Fury

I’m really excited about my future plans, as I’m doing things differently and currently training like a Trojan in pursuit of becoming heavyweight champion of the world.

Tyson Fury

My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.

Tyson Fury

I just need to count the rounds and count me money afterwards.

Tyson Fury

I’d like to take a course in writing. I’m not the best writer in the world. I’d like to write more neatly, even though people don’t send many handwritten letters these days.

Tyson Fury

I can fight, but that’s the only thing I can do. When it comes to anything other than fighting or talking, I’m not very good.

Tyson Fury

I don’t need David Haye and his antics to earn money.

Tyson Fury

I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.

Tyson Fury

My brother Shane and I used to spar with each other in the kitchen. We didn’t have gloves, so we wrapped tea towels around our hands.

Tyson Fury

I’ve challenged Cain Velasquez to a fight three times. He’s a little boy who doesn’t want to fight. He said no, live on TV.

Tyson Fury

I will be dictated to by nobody. I’m the man. And if anyone can prove me wrong, their chance is inside a boxing ring. You don’t like it, change the station.

Tyson Fury

I prefer to fight a bigger guy. I don’t like fighting smaller guys; they give me problems with their agility.

Tyson Fury

I have not met a man as tall as me who is as quick as me, ever.

Tyson Fury

I’ve sparred with lots of people and played around with everybody.

Tyson Fury

Training’s training; boxing’s boxing. Everyone does the same kind of stuff: they spar, they train, they do whatever they do to prepare for fights.

Tyson Fury

I already know what boxers do; I’ve been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare.

Tyson Fury

Although there’s been a fighter before me called Mike Tyson, I’m my own Tyson. I’m . I ain’t trying to be anybody else.

Tyson Fury

I don’t fight like Mike Tyson. I’m nothing at all like Mike Tyson. I’m out to build my own legacy and not live off anyone else’s name.

Tyson Fury

Any man who puts a pair of gloves on deserves respect because lots wouldn’t dream of it. To get in there and go one-on-one, you need your hand shaking afterwards. Many men wouldn’t get involved.

Tyson Fury

Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it.

Tyson Fury

Good will always prevail over evil. I see that in me versus Klitschko.

Tyson Fury

I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I’ve got money in the bank. I’m not in need of a few quid – as it stands. It’s all irrelevant to me.

Tyson Fury

There are lots of people in the world who have money. Lots of people in Morecambe have money, let alone the world. And Morecambe is quite a small place.

Tyson Fury

I set out in the beginning to be the heavyweight champion of the world. From a very young age, I was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world. Nothing else was a problem to me. That’s what I’ll finish doing.

Tyson Fury

Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it’s not just a sports contest – a boxing match for money or belts.

Tyson Fury

I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family.

Tyson Fury

Women have to be pure and respectful.

Tyson Fury

I’ve had hundreds of challenges at Traveller gatherings. They get a few beers in them, and they start thinking they are Tyson or Ali: throwing punches, swearing, and jumping around with their big fat bellies. I’d love to knock a few of them out.

Tyson Fury

I’m a unique fighter – one of a kind.

Tyson Fury

There’s never been someone like me in history – a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.

Tyson Fury

I don’t hate old men but listen when being spoken to.

Tyson Fury

They are the three venues I wanted to box in – I wasn’t really interested in Las Vegas and all of them places. The three I always said was Croke Park, United, and Madison Square Garden.

Tyson Fury

You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can’t take the Irishness out of the man.

Tyson Fury

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.

Tyson Fury

There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008.

Tyson Fury

There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.

Tyson Fury

As a fan, I like watching fighters rather than boxers.

Tyson Fury

Watching two men jib and jab for 12 rounds is not entertaining for me. I want action, knockouts, big shots, and people getting up off the canvas. That’s my ideal fight.

Tyson Fury

For me, it’s about being a star, being a superstar, and not just winning a world title but becoming the best-ever British fighter this country has ever had. That’s what I am, and that’s what I intend to do.

Tyson Fury

I’ve been in crisis situations, I’ve been down, I’ve been hurt, I’ve been behind on the scorecards, and I’ve had to pull that shot out to knock somebody out. I’ve been in all kinds of situations and still come out on top.

Tyson Fury

Lennox Lewis is a hater of .

Tyson Fury

He has been a world champion – great for him – but listen, whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I’m here waiting for him because I’m the best British fighter to come out of these shores.

Tyson Fury

People should look up to me. Young kids. I am a good role model. I’ll show them how men should really be. And kids can take note from that. I am a good role model. Lots of kids look up to me.

Tyson Fury

What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That’s not very personality is it?

Tyson Fury

I’m a little bit backward. I didn’t really go to school.

Tyson Fury

My belief is that my wife should be at home looking after my kids and cooking and cleaning. She’s a very privileged woman to have a husband like me. Not everyone’s in her position, but the ones who are are very lucky. That’s my opinion.

Tyson Fury

Whether someone like Klitschko wins, loses, draws, or gets knocked out in five seconds, he is still a big name.

Tyson Fury

Wilder is not a big draw in the U.S. He maybe sells 5,000 to 10,000 tickets when he’s fighting in his own town for the heavyweight champion.

Tyson Fury

Klitschko was the reigning champion for a decade and regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. I’m never going to face another opponent with that legacy.

Tyson Fury

Everything I’ve set out to do, I’ve achieved, and all the praise goes to God.

Tyson Fury

When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.

Tyson Fury

Everything is possible through God, and I’m living proof of that.

Tyson Fury

There are 7 billion people in the world, but there’s only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that’s me.

Tyson Fury

I’ve said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It’s all a bit tongue-in-cheek.

Tyson Fury

I’m not a sexist. I believe if a man can to go work all his life, a woman can. Who am I to say, ‘Don’t do that because you’re a girl?’

Tyson Fury

There’s lots of sins in this life. We’re all sinners. If you don’t believe in God and you don’t believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

Tyson Fury

I aim for the stars, and winning a world title will not be a fulfilment of a dream for me. It never has been.

Tyson Fury

I never started in boxing to be a British champion or a world champion. There are loads of world champions in Britain, and if you mention them to someone out there on the street, nobody knows who they are.

Tyson Fury

I’m not homophobic, I’m not racist. I’m not against any people. All I have for people is love.

Tyson Fury

At the end of the day, we’re all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.

Tyson Fury

Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.

Tyson Fury

How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.

Tyson Fury

My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.

Tyson Fury

If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don’t want to talk to, just mention God. They’re out of there.

Tyson Fury

I will become the greatest, because all travellers have to be able to adapt. That quality, adaptability, is essential to that way of life. Not many boxers have it but I can adapt before a fight to the opponent, during the fight if necessary.

Tyson Fury

Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.

Tyson Fury

My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don’t pray regularly enough.

Tyson Fury

I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.

Tyson Fury

I’m not even scared of the devil. If the devil confronted me, I’d confront him as well.

Tyson Fury

I do like going to the movies, but I like eating tons of sweets and ice cream, so I can’t go to the movies anymore.

Tyson Fury

Let’s make this clear: I do not hate anybody.

Tyson Fury

My Lord and saviour Jesus Christ does not hate anybody.

Tyson Fury

I believe all woman look good in dresses; is that a crime?

Tyson Fury

Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it’s about sporting achievements and it’s about personality, then I’m a winner hands down.

Tyson Fury

Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.

Tyson Fury

I’ve got an outspoken personality, which gets people thinking, and my style of fighting is aggressive. Everything’s on the line all the time. In my fights, there’s drama.

Tyson Fury

I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way.

Tyson Fury

My mum had 14 pregnancies – but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral.

Tyson Fury

Every time I stray away from the Lord’s word, I find emptiness and darkness.

Tyson Fury

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that’s the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof – the same guy.

Tyson Fury

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I’ll throw a 2-1.

Tyson Fury

Nothing has run smoothly with me throughout my life. Everything has had ups and downs and lefts and rights, and that’s just the way it has panned out for me, unfortunately.

Tyson Fury

I’m a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don’t care what people think of me. I don’t care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

Tyson Fury

Obviously, I care about the kids. Family, all that sort of stuff. But really, I don’t care about life, don’t care about death. Nothing. That’s the kind of man you are dealing with. That’s why I can’t be beaten.

Tyson Fury

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

Tom Brady

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

Tom Brady

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

Tom Brady

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

Tom Brady

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

Tom Brady

I am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world.

Tom Brady

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Tom Brady

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Tom Brady

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

Tom Brady

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

Tom Brady

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Tom Brady

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‘Let’s see if I can get this done today.’

Tom Brady

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

Tom Brady

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Tom Brady

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.

Tom Brady

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

Tom Brady

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Tom Brady

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.

Tom Brady

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it’s so hard in our American diet to do that… It’s hard to completely avoid.

Tom Brady

I never had any coffee or anything like that. I just never tried it.

Tom Brady

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Tom Brady

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

Tom Brady

It’s a real strength for me that I’ve never minded the training process. It’s something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

Tom Brady

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

Tom Brady

I’ve had a lot of ridiculous haircuts.

Tom Brady

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone’s goal is to score points.

Tom Brady

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

Tom Brady

To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you’re throwing it or running it in, it’s not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That’s the problem with turnovers.

Tom Brady

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

Tom Brady

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Tom Brady

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

Tom Brady

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

Tom Brady

I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

Tom Brady

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

Tom Brady

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

Tom Brady

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

Tom Brady

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

Tom Brady

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Tom Brady

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

Tom Brady

I like Tom Ford a lot because it’s so classic and has great quality. I wear a lot of Rag & Bone.

Tom Brady

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Tom Brady

Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you’re like, ‘Wow, she looks so beautiful.’ And then you have men who dress like slobs, and you’re like, ‘What’s the deal with these big and baggy suits.’ It’s pretty ridiculous.

Tom Brady

I really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn’t the case.

Tom Brady

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

Tom Brady

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

Tom Brady

I think my style is probably more of a classic look.

Tom Brady

I think hygiene is so important.

Tom Brady

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‘OK, let’s try some of these things.’ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.

Tom Brady

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Tom Brady

As for hobbies, I don’t really read or watch TV.

Tom Brady

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

Tom Brady

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I’ve always been a tennis fan.

Tom Brady

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Tom Brady

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

Tom Brady

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Tom Brady

I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year.

Tom Brady

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ’cause everybody’s got different style.

Tom Brady

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

Tom Brady

I have more suits than days of the year that I get to wear them.

Tom Brady

I’m a pretty casual dresser. At home, it’s probably whatever is functional to relax in, whether it’s a pair of sweats or a pair of jeans.

Tom Brady

I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

Tom Brady

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

Tom Brady

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Tom Brady

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

Tom Brady

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

Tom Brady

I have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.

Tom Brady

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

Tom Brady

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

Tom Brady

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Tom Brady

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Tom Brady

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

Tom Brady

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Tom Brady

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Tom Brady

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

Tom Brady

The biggest issue is muscle pliability. That’s what I think the biggest secret to me is. What is muscle pliability? Muscle pliability is keeping your muscles long and soft.

Tom Brady

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

Tom Brady

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Tom Brady

My wife doesn’t let anyone wear shoes in our house, so we have a bench, and under the bench is all UGGs slippers.

Tom Brady

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

Tom Brady

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

Tom Brady

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.

Tom Brady

I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

Tom Brady

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Tom Brady

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

Tom Brady

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

Tom Brady

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

Tom Brady

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Tom Brady

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Tom Brady

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

Tom Brady

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Tom Brady

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

Tom Brady

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

Tom Brady

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

Tom Brady

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I’m like, ‘C’mon, Tiger!’

Tom Brady

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‘My wife told me to wear this!’ And I just shake my head.

Tom Brady

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‘That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.’ How fun is that?

Tom Brady

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Tom Brady

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

Tom Brady

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

Tom Brady

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Tom Brady

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

Tom Brady

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Tom Brady

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Tom Brady

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

Tom Brady

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.

Tom Brady

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

Tom Brady

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

Tom Brady

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Tom Brady

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Tom Brady

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Tom Brady

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

Tom Brady

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

Tom Brady

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Tom Brady

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

Tom Brady

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

Tom Brady

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

Tom Brady

Football is unconditional love.

Tom Brady

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

Tom Brady

I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped.

Tom Brady

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

Tom Brady

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.

Tom Brady

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

Tom Brady

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

Tom Brady

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

Tom Brady

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Tom Brady

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Tom Brady

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

Tom Brady

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

Tom Brady

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Tom Brady

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Tom Brady

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Tom Brady

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

Tom Brady

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Tom Brady

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

Tom Brady

I’m not a celebrity. I’m just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.

Simone Biles

There are goals that I have, and then I dream of it, and then I make it a reality. If I could crawl out of my skin and see it, it would be really amazing.

Simone Biles

Most of our fans don’t get to interact with us or know our personalities except through social media.

Simone Biles

The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.

Simone Biles

Stay healthy, have fun with it, and embrace all the moments. Because anything can happen.

Simone Biles

As athletes, we’re always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don’t think about it.

Simone Biles

One of my favourite things to do is compete for a crowd. It’s just really fun for me.

Simone Biles

Everything is possible at any one competition.

Simone Biles

I’m thrilled that I was able to share my first Olympic Games experience with my U.S. teammates.

Simone Biles

The support down here in Rio has been amazing – between my family, Team U.S.A. and Team Kellogg’s, I’ve felt so much love. This whole experience has been a dream come true.

Simone Biles

I spend a lot of time in the gym training, and Core Power is a great fit for my nutritional needs.

Simone Biles

For me to compete at the highest level, training and living a healthy lifestyle is an everyday focus for me, and I’m excited to be a part of the Everyday Awesome team!

Simone Biles

In the morning, I usually get up between 7:40 A.M. and 7:45 A.M., and then I’ll brush my teeth, do my hair, and just throw on my leotard and my clothes and go to the kitchen.

Simone Biles

I make breakfast, which is usually Kellogg’s Red Berries or egg whites, and then I go to the gym that’s only 10 minutes away.

Simone Biles

I have practice from 9 A.M. to 12 P.M., and then I drive home and eat lunch, which is either chicken or fish so I get the protein.

Simone Biles

It doesn’t even matter if I don’t win a self-gold – after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.

Simone Biles

You can still be very good at what you do and have fun.

Simone Biles

You don’t have to be serious all the time to do a good job.

Simone Biles

If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with you for the rest of the routine, then the rest of your routine might not go as planned. So you just kind of shake it off, and you just continue your routine like you didn’t fall.

Simone Biles

We’ve always had each other’s backs in and out of competition. We support each other the most because we’re the only ones that know what it’s like to go through what we do, and so we can’t be more thankful for each other. We’re like sisters.

Simone Biles

We strive for greatness.

Simone Biles

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

Simone Biles

I love competing.

Simone Biles

My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don’t use it to pray before a competition. I’ll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

Simone Biles

My first experience with gymnastics was when I was in daycare. We took a field trip to a gym, and I was hooked.

Simone Biles

Gymnastics is just one part of my life, and I’m having as much fun with it as possible.

Simone Biles

At some point, I’ll have to go get a real job.

Simone Biles

I was built this way for a reason, so I’m going to use it.

Simone Biles

Most athletes get intimidated once they see how many fans are out there, but it almost calms me down in a way because I think of it as a fun way to show off what I’ve been working on.

Simone Biles

I think I’m teaching my teammates that they can still be successful while having fun and enjoying the moment rather than being a stone cold brick.

Simone Biles

You can have fun and do well. Just let loose a bit.

Simone Biles

That’s what I love about how diverse our team is – we have such different body types, yet together, we build the best team there is. I think we’re stronger together than individually.

Simone Biles

I feel like I’m small and mighty and pack a powerful punch, just like Tide PODS.

Simone Biles

Growing up, it was kind of a struggle being small, since everyone would make fun of you – except for when it came to hide and seek: that’s the only advantage I ever had!

Simone Biles

It’s amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body type doesn’t matter because you can do anything.

Simone Biles

I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the things that I’ve accomplished, I never thought in a million years that I would be here. So it just proves that once you believe in yourself, and you put your mind to something, you can do it.

Simone Biles

I didn’t really ever dream of going to the Olympics until after 2012.

Simone Biles

As a kid growing up, I was never like, ‘I want to go to the Olympics,’ so having to pass on 2012 because I was too young didn’t bother me at all.

Simone Biles

I can only control what I do when I go compete.

Simone Biles

If I disappoint someone, it’s their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don’t know me. I can’t control what they want.

Simone Biles

I feel like it’s harder because everyone knows I’m the three-time world champion – it’s almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.

Simone Biles

I don’t really think about the degree of difficulty or the possibility of making a mistake. I just try to relax and let my preparation and training take over.

Simone Biles

I didn’t get the high school opportunity, but it always worked out.

Simone Biles

When I was younger, I thought every kid was adopted because that’s all I’ve known. I have everything I need, so I never felt the need to have answers for what happened.

Simone Biles

My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.

Simone Biles

We go to church on Sunday and then have family dinner. My mom usually cooks, and most of the time, it’s protein and something else. She will ask us kids what we want!

Simone Biles

Every year, I think of Worlds as the big meet, but now, it’s the Olympics. I’m blessed to even have the opportunity to think about it and work for it.

Simone Biles

I would be like, ‘Oh, my gosh, I wish I could go to prom.’ But then I think, ‘You know what? A lot of people can’t say they’ve ever done what I do – they’ll never have this opportunity.’

Simone Biles

I’m always trying to push myself to the limit to see what I can do. It’s my strong will that I’ve always had since I was a kid.

Simone Biles

If they said, ‘Do five pull-ups,’ I would always want to do 10.

Simone Biles

A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I’m doing. It’s not always winning. People, I think, mistake that it’s just winning. Sometimes it could be, but for me, it’s hitting the best sets I can, gaining confidence, and having a good time and having fun.

Simone Biles

So far, my goals stops at making an Olympic team, and then if that happens, then I’ll jot down more goals.

Simone Biles

The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.

Simone Biles

I’m very fortunate to have a coach that I got to stay with all this time. Every year the bond gets stronger and better, and we understand each other more. And it’s like she can tell if I walk into the gym what kind of mood I’m in, what she has to fix for the practice I need, or how I’m feeling.

Simone Biles

One of my proudest moments was probably 2013 Worlds because I proved to myself that I could do things that I didn’t think I could.

Simone Biles

I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I’m competing against myself to prove that I can do this and that I am very well trained, prepared for it.

Simone Biles

If anybody has a bad day, they’ll just come to my room because they know I’ll bring out the positive in everything, or I’ll make them laugh, or I’ll be just crazy.

Simone Biles

Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.

Simone Biles

They’re like, ‘Oh, you did a…’ and I’m like, ‘I did a what?’ No, I flipped twice. I twisted twice. They go, ‘It’s called a…’ and I’m like, ‘Why do I need to know that? I just need to go and do that.’

Simone Biles

It hurts my head, but it’s fine because it’s something I do every day. You can’t avoid the gymnastics questions.

Simone Biles

We all have skills, I guess.

Simone Biles

If I won gold in 2016, I think it would change my life.

Simone Biles

I think for me, the most fun competition that I’ve had was my first Worlds.

Simone Biles

People comment on my pictures, ‘Stay healthy.’

Simone Biles

I’ve never been to the Olympics, so I don’t know what to expect. It’s better for me, just like my first Worlds… My third Worlds, I knew what it was like, so I was like, ‘Oh my goodness. But this is my first Olympics, and not knowing what to expect is good for me.

Simone Biles

You can’t get too caught up in yourself.

Simone Biles

I don’t do bugs.

Simone Biles

I have everything I need, so there are no blanks left unfilled.

Simone Biles

I never felt I had questions or needed answers or had a part of me that was missing.

Simone Biles

I don’t fear what will happen, but you just get ahead of yourself, like, ‘Oh my gosh, I wish it would happen now.’

Simone Biles

It was a very long and hard decision. My dad kept telling me, ‘You can always go to college, but you can’t always go pro.’ That made sense to me.

Simone Biles

I think we have other things to worry about than some Zika virus.

Simone Biles

For me, I don’t think about size – I focus more on being powerful and confident.

Simone Biles

Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it’s like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.

Simone Biles

I am like any typical teenager.

Simone Biles

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

Simone Biles

The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially when people start to shout and clap their hands in time with the music. That really helps us to go on.

Simone Biles

Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.

Simone Biles

I started gymnastics when I was six years old. I was at day care, and they took us on a field trip to a gym club, Bannon’s Gymnastix in Houston, and that’s how I got started.

Simone Biles

I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I’ve been to three World Championships… so I think it’s like a win-win.

Simone Biles

Sometimes I hear the crowd cheering, and most of the time your body’s on auto pilot, so sometimes even after I do a floor routine, I’m like, ‘Did I really just do that?’

Simone Biles

Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can’t do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.

Simone Biles

At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.

Simone Biles

I guess I just have really tough skin.

Simone Biles

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