Athlete Quotes

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.

Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!

With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.

As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's very gratifying.

You play with your soul as well as your body.

The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.

If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

The true athlete should have character, not be a character

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

I'm not an athlete; I'm a quarterback. I don't have great speed, and I can't throw 90 yards down the field. I win games because I've done the mental preparation.