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Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?

I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.

Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

Athletes and actors do really crazy things, and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.