“All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it...” — Nick Nolte Quote

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

I've never been all that comfortable in real life.

You work at a job, and you reach a certain level, and you're a little satisfied, and you keep going at it a little more, and you finally finish it. You go, 'Ah,' all your dopamine receptor sites are full. You're satiated.

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.

You can't really rely on a couple of athletes to deliver you medals in five consecutive Olympic Games. It's absolutely unrealistic. You have to have a system in place where you continue to increase the depth of the sport which pushes performance levels to higher standards.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.

Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.

I think me and Cub Swanson could be a title fight with the way we perform. We're two great athletes, we're stand up guys, two guys who go for broke and we have it all together. I just feel like everything he's good at, I'm better at.