"As a professional athlete or a golfer or footballer, you're out there to try and earn a few quid, but you're all about enjoying yourself while you're doing it."
"If you get to the NBA, it's like, damn man, much respect. You got to the dance."
"It's not personal... it's strictly business for both Fighters."
"Most players would just put on an ice pack and sit out the rest of the game to avoid further aggravating the injury. But in Kobe's case, it was just another day at the office."
"Eventually, you get replaced easy. NBA, we cut you off at some point."
"Now that he's proven to be worthy once again and his powers have been returned, Jaylen looks to catch lightning in a bottle again during his upcoming NFL career."
"Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the best to ever do it, his work ethic, his discipline, all of the attributes he has now, something that we all should strive towards."
"Your job is to win, your job is to be competitive."
"Being forced to self-isolate is no reason not to get the miles in if you're a professional cyclist."
"It's a business and it's a professional sport; it's not playtime with the Lollipop Guild."
"There's a divorce between athletes understanding that fans ultimately pay their salary."
"I think a lot about what pro players would want and a lot of it comes down to legacy."
"The NBA is trying to do everything it possibly can to make the bubble as relaxing and comfortable as possible."
"I always wanted to play on the best team, that's what's most important to me."
"I'm confident in who I am, and if they cannot accept me for me, then I don't want to be the face of the league."
"It just shows how insane professional golf is how good you guys are it's it's nuts."
"Amateur skateboarders are insanely good. Once they sign that pro contract, their skill level drops substantially."
"A reminder to Eddie Howe and just about anyone else as if it were needed of how quickly things can change in football."
"I need to allow myself to be sad, not just momentarily, to let the emotion come and go, but to acknowledge it fully so I can grow from it."
"If you work hard, have a good attitude, and create a lane for yourself, especially in team sports, that gives you a chance to make it."
"Minnesota: the state of hockey, where every family has a former professional player."
"I've been here since day one and I don't get the respect I deserve."
"Players can't just decide when they're playing or when they're not playing or just holding teams hostage because of their star power."
"People don't know, they'll cut your minutes in half. A guy who plays 27 minutes is playing 17 and it's a contract year. Then you look at me like, 'Oh, it's because it's a contract.'"
"Free speech means freedom from government interference."
"It's a bit of a mess of a situation, the champion wants to move on, they're essentially begging him to stay."
"Walking back into Madison Square Garden after 15 years of professional sports really took me back to my playing days."
"For everyone LeBron James, there probably about 5,000 of the guys who tried to become LeBron and failed."
"Kyrie Irving has officially requested a trade, believes that he deserved, you know, a fully guaranteed contract."
"The elite era of professional wrestling has arrived."
"Once you get to the NBA it's the apex of the Apex."
"Let's put ourselves in the head here of Anthony Herrera I mean he wanted to turn professional for such a long time."
"Everyone feels like a main character until you get to the NBA."
"The best thing that happened to me was when the NFL told me, 'You're a backup quarterback.'"
"Star players know their bodies, nagging injuries pop up here and there."
"Teams are getting smarter, shorter contracts."
"Kyrie Irving has agreed to a three-year 126 with a Mav deal to return to the Mavericks."
"We're gonna try to pull off the hardest record in Pro Sports an undefeated season baby."
"Salaries did salaries go up because I know that in LCS so many things changed, um, salaries like doubled or tripled within that like next year, um."
"And the players are the players, and we are honest people and as professionals, and we try always to do our best. I'm really, really pleased for us as a group that we can finish top four."
"Money is the motivation when you start talking about pro sports."
"I love it like professional sports is the last vestige of civic pride we have."
"He's not fit enough to be here. First, we didn't see him the last games for United so he wasn't in the right status in the right fitness state."
"There are even professional sports leagues that already regularly require travel over similar or greater distances."
"Brandon Parks back on a two-year deal that's gonna have him be a Cowboy through 2040."
"We often talk to the pro players and sometimes their coaches or their other players on their team."
"I feel like you're being more appreciated as time goes on and 10 years after you're done, we will talk about you way more fondly than we did when you were fighting actively, especially in the UFC."
"If Roger Goodell calls your name this weekend your life changes forever."
"This is Devon Haney right now at the top of his game."
"I'm fighting the best fighters in the world. I'm putting it all on the line every single time not for the money but for the Legacy for my name to be remembered."
"The difference between kickers and punters is like that one position isn't going to get us to a Super Bowl."
"Courage trumps everything in professional fighting."
"He's the most respectful person in the dressing room and will continue like this."
"But this is kind of a throwback to like the uh the early days of like professional Athletics where they didn't have steroids they didn't have protein powder."
"We had a decade of super teams. It's over. Ring chasing is done."
"The ultimate professional... he ended up playing 30 or 43 minutes, that's a Tom Thibodeau special."
"Marginal gains work for players like Mo Salah, Saka, Kevin De Bruyne."
"The most decorated players know how to win trophies."
"He moved here in the United States in March of 2010 to pursue a career as a professional prizefighter."
"He has his sights set on fighting for a world title in the near future."
"This could be the last time we've seen Steph, Klay, and Draymond play a game together on the same team."
"In his last season with the Wizards, Michael Jordan's drive to succeed may well have eclipsed his ability to lead."
"At 31 years old now, a decade removed from his initial year in the NFL, Aldon Smith has been given as many chances as one man can receive."
"Despite the bad rookie season, I think Trevor Lawrence still has all the physical tools to be a very good NFL quarterback."
"It was weird, because obviously we were so lucky to play as long as we play in the NBA. I feel like greatest job in the world."
"I kind of felt like I have an obligation to my brothers in the league and guys have played before to really tell it how it is."
"When I went to Golden State, it was crazy because they lacked nothing."
"Why can't I be validated here on 'I Am Athlete'?"
"It's all about leverage, and Dak's sitting back right now with all of it."
"I had a dream and that dream was to play professional football."
"Now to see guys getting drafted early in the first round first pick to see you know other quarterbacks to see guys like Patrick Mahomes being the greatest he's been."
"But now to see guys getting drafted early in the first round first pick to see you know other quarterbacks to see guys like Patrick Mahomes being the greatest he's been."
"Visited Griner and reported she was in good shape. The 31-year-old plays her off-seasons in Russia where she earns in excess of a million dollars a season."
"It's always important after the holidays that you come in the rhythm and you're playing a lot of minutes when possible."
"Ignore the haters because [Dalo] is absolutely a superstar of a fullback."
"If you're talking about what he achieved in football, he was a world-class footballer...but from the minute he walked through the doors, there was no one more driven than him."
"The experienced teams here will know exactly how to bounce back, so while it's worth discussing, it's also worth noting that they tend to be the teams that can bounce back the best, can put it behind them the easiest."
"Russell is understanding that he's coming into a situation of an organization that does things the right way."
"Nobody's talking crazy, man. I understand world caliber championships is a different caliber."
"Playing in it to many is a bigger honor than even playing in the pros."
"Pleased with the way the UFC treats fighters."
"There's no such thing as loyalty to an org, there's no such thing as loyalty to a team."
"I think there's times where I walked into the locker room and I thought after after a day of practice in Foxboro and I thought I'm the worst quarterback in the NFL."
"Launched a thousand academic ships but got a shrug of the shoulders from professional sports."
"Does anybody actually believe Ollie gonna Solskjaer is good enough to coach in the Premier League?"
"If one is to make it in the world of professional racing, they must be willing to bet on themselves."
"Zion has zero offers ladies and gentlemen he averaged 25 points per game and nobody want to get him one M I mean one M nowadays is pretty is a lot of money but still."
"LeBron's basketball was more than a game. It is business and to his deepest desires as a free agent."
"I'm always for an athlete getting paid sooner rather than later."
"Professional athletes should start thinking like Elon Musk."
"Mentality is there for them; they're the players performing at the highest level." - United Stand
"Maybe Hamilton needs to kind of focus up a bit and get his head back in the game."
"Ezekiel Mitchell leads off the win for the Austin gamblers, gamblers now 2-0 on the weekend."
"The only thing that motivates you as an athlete at that level... especially if you haven't made it is money."
"Every guy that you recruit thinks he has a chance, and yet less than one percent of the people make it."
"There is a ton of Reason to Believe Ali's MLB career is over."
"Chris Paul has been a model of consistency for 17 years."
"Max Holloway now wins his 12th fight in a row."
"It's very good to see that other people, even in such a profession like boxing, are willing to embrace the fact that they can bring something to the table."
"I'm not trying to leave, but if an opportunity comes to go to a team that you can't refuse, I'll talk to Sporting."
"Professional-level overtakes are almost always set up in advance."
"It's been the honor of a lifetime to represent the horseshoe and the city of Indianapolis."
"NBA and NBA Players Association sign new CBA."
"Our Prospect had just signed his 4-year $27 million rookie contract."
"He humanized what many saw as an inhumanly skilled roster." - "Dupree wasn't the flashiest player, but he humanized what many saw as an inhumanly skilled roster."
"It never fails to amaze me how egos cause so many problems in the NFL."
"What's a bad rule? Taunting. We should be able to taunt the other player. We're in the professional organization. We should be able to taunt."
"You know, everything is about money. I mean these guys were earning over 300 grand a week."
"He's a pro, I see a pro in this league, man, with all the help he got, he's still getting 20, 25 game, um, we need to, he need about 30 tonight if he's going to beat the Reapers."
"As a kid, it's been my childhood dream to play on the same pitch as top professional footballers and Champions League winners."
"I reckon a footballer cares at that point i mean let's be honest they're already making thousands of pounds per week right i reckon at that point there and then they know they're gonna make that throughout the year"
"If Paul Pogba comes out and says, 'Look, I'm not signing a new contract, I'll stay here for another year and then I'm going for free next summer.' And the reason I'm doing that is because..."
"Playing with the best athletes in the world."
"I always say the most important respect you can get when in this league is from your peers."
"Coming in at number 21, I've got G-Man Choi of the Tampa Bay Rays."
"Summer league is like a confidence booster until you really gotta get into that 82 games."
"No United player can moan about criticism... it's based on frustration and anger."
"We were able to go out there and get this contract on the right way."
"Dale Earnhardt Jr. is maybe the greatest superstar in all professional sports."
"They're the best athletes skilled people in professional sports."
"Kevin Durant is trying to find his comfort zone. He's trying to find a place where he can genuinely be happy and received in the fashion that he thinks he deserves."
"You're a pound, I'm a fully professional fighter, I'm always on weight."
"It is as difficult as playing any kind of professional sport."
"I just want to talk about some things in the NBA inside, outside the bubble."
"They just aren't good at their jobs." - Cowboys player expressing frustration with coaching staff.
"No ego, they have guys if Bill Belichick thinks you're a bad guy or cancer and you're out of there."
"It's the combination of work ethic and natural ability. Currently in the NBA, individual skill is at an all-time high."
"Imagine you're a fighter, you're a real athlete, you know, you put your whole life into it from nutrition to training to just fight IQ and all this stuff you have to learn."
"I thought we made good offers to Payne and Greedy Williams"
"It's cool to see like in like a macho masculine sport that that was I think the first sport were like women were holding it down with them even in the men they're equal paydays."
"He played for 17 seasons and 9 Pro Bowls, scoring 420 touchdowns in his career!"
"It's evolved football into one of the deepest and most intellectual games of the professional level."
"If they've come in they've done a season somewhere else the adjustment period is going to be a lot less and the risk factor is a lot less."
"After 20 years in the NBA at 38 years old Stephen a Smith has called it a career."
"Jason Tatum has retired from the NBA after 19 years pro at 38 years old. He says, 'I've done everything I could do with my time in the league. It's time to call it a career.'"
"Honestly, it's just part of it, part of what comes with being a pro footballer."
"Jermaine Cole has retired at 38 years old, three years pro..."
"Financially, the UFC has impacted my life. My life changed, my family lives very freely because of the UFC."
"I never in my life did I dream about playing for the G league, but in reality that's where I'm at."
"There's so much talent on that roster right now."
"I think cycling is going in the direction of surfing and skating where you can be a professional without being on a professional team."
"The cream is starting to rise to the top here, rich. Let's start in Buffalo."
"Without grassroots football, there wouldn't be professional football."
"Never doubt the commitment of Mo. I never met a guy, a player, but also a human being who's more committed to the life of being a professional football player."
"If you're a footballer on £200,000 a week, England's starting center-back, and the manager says you're not part of his plans, you've got to go."
"When they ring the bell and they close the cage and ring the bell, we go. You know, and we can, we're allowed to be us because we're fighters, we're professional."
"If I'm a fighter and I'm getting paid a certain amount, yeah I can put in my contract."
"Elite athletes are still paid to perform even when they are struggling."
"Defensive Rookie of the Year goes to Kenneth Richardson for the Cardinals."
"He is one of the select few sportsmen to have gone professional in both baseball and basketball."
"You know, last round on the pro tour for these guys for the year most likely unless they're maybe playing more of the silver series to end of the year."
"The feelings that it had, from the locker room to the field, to all the behind the scenes areas that it went to, this day it's probably one of very few that really captured the essence of life in the big leagues."
"Despite my demons, I was able to play 15 years of professional hockey."
"This is a job unlike almost any not just in the NBA but in professional sports."
"I think there's a big misconception that people think you know the pros go pick up their boats from the factory and throw your tackle and then boom you go start the tournament season not the case at all in this day and age."
"Physically she's ready for the WNBA. I think a lot of times you watch kids in college and you're like, 'What about her in the pros?' I watch her and I'm like she's going to be even better in the pros."
"Simply put, there will never ever be another professional golfer like John Daly."
"It's quite a risky business to sponsor tour pros because they can quickly swap putters or they can have a bad few weeks."
"Dude, we're all... playing golf for a living, are you kidding me?"
"Basketball in the NBA is a job, man. You play the game you love, but you also have to work."
"The NFL is the elite. Even if you're the worst team in the league, you're a [__] NFL player."
"Banning the super tuck annoys me more, it's almost insulting to a pro Rider."
"Once I realize in a professional game is people are gonna go 'oh my god unbelievable go' so there's no downside to trying things."
"The prestige and glamour of the big leagues are often balanced by countless lonely hours away from home."
"It's absolutely surreal to be a part of the organization, to be able to have a dream come true to go pro with a lot of your friends and family."
"Who is the top baby face in the company?"
"Realize that it's not about that individual team being cheap or not respecting that specific player—it's much bigger than that."
"Keane might not have hit the heights once expected of him now age 30 but given the injuries he suffered he has shown remarkable resilience to still be playing professionally."
"Our number one seed is none other than Wes Malott from near Dallas, Texas, gunning for his second career title here today in Detroit."
"NIL deals may not only benefit the students, but the pro game as well."
"Well, if you income average his last two main events, that's more than $4 million per appearance."
"Professional riders, no matter how experienced they become, always want to win a stage in the Tour de France."
"It's gonna start happening in all the places with pro sports and with all these other things going on too."
"NHRA races are the only competitions in professional sports where men and women battle on a truly level playing field."
"Everybody who follows the sport of professional wrestling knows how dominant Camille is."
"We're gonna need to take them out get off my property all of these races were on a closed course and they're professional Riders."
"Another one of those hallmarks? The ability to earn trust."
"I feel pretty confident saying he's an NFL player. He's proven that."
"Sometimes as a quarterback or as a player in the NFL, getting hit for the first time actually is a positive thing because it settles you down a bit."
"Guys, he's gonna get paid a million dollars to play football regardless."
"Life is not fair. Everybody's not entitled to get a pro contract, even if you're good enough to be a pro."
"WRS has the least Distortion in that that's what you want especially in high level of racing like Moto GP and world superbike."
"...the dude is still playing professionally over in the Czech Republic at 48 years old and still producing I might add over 1900 points in over 1,700 games played an unbelievable career."
"...sometimes when you're really fighting for those top positions through all of us we can lose sight the fun side of it."
"Alberto Bettiol wins his first ever major race as a professional."
"Professionals and low single-digit handicappers, you know that's what it's really built for."
"Enjoy this though, this doesn't happen a lot, even when you get into the NFL, it's not like college, it's not like your boys, it's a whole different world that you'll remember forever."
"There's 57 other pro players that deserve to win too, you know what I mean?"
"Invest it, put away for that rainy day because the inevitability for all professional athletes... that rainy day is going to happen."
"The pressure brings out the greatest in these professional bowlers."
"Every game you get to play in the NHL is special, you're lucky."
"This is what a professional athlete lives for, performing under pressure."
"Pros can rebound from adversity, and that's why these guys are back on TV today, giving themselves a chance to win."
"Every fisherman dreams of fishing at the highest level, of taking their shot at fishing against the best competition in the land."
"I believe 100% that these two, especially in technical ability, deserve to be professional skateboarders."
"It's all marketability at the end of the day."
"Ladies and gentlemen, a very good evening and welcome to an exciting night of world-class professional boxing."
"We're Sid and Macky, and we're professional mountain bikers on a quest to race the best and most challenging mountain bike races we can find."
"Playing golf well as a golf pro is the best thing you can do."
"Every pro knows how difficult winning a race of this stature is."