“I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think ...” — Chris Evans Quote

“I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a basketball party, and I just kind of froze. He's monstrous.”

“There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.”

“Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.”

“I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.”

“If I do cardio I'll disappear.”

“The trick is, when you try a good pair of jeans on, you may not think they're that great, but you wear them two months, and they become your favorite jeans. They're tricky. You gotta let them live.”

“There's no private side to acting, which some people find hard. I've drawn inspiration from athletes. They manage to be themselves under the pressure of public scrutiny, and they have it much harder - they have to perform with people yelling at them.”

“We can find athletes. The biggest challenge is personality. It's finding charisma. In most sports, they tell you to turn down the personality. Look like everyone else on the team. It's the team; it's not you. In this, it's the opposite. It's you, not the team. We want you to become the big star.”

“I tried to be one of the best-conditioned athletes.”

“I always love being able to dance with athletes because they just know how to be coached.”

“In soccer, female athletes across the world wear shoes that are not meant for us, our feet, or our game.”

“Athletes are going to tease each other. Football players want to be baseball players. Baseball players want to be football players. Basketball players want to be baseball players, and vice versa.”