Athlete Quotes

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

There are a lot of young great athletes out there; they're much better athletes than what we were. They're bigger, faster, stronger, unfortunately, there're fewer places to go.

To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes who possess this drive are the ones I am attracted to.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

It doesn't take talent to hustle.

The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.

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

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

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.

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.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

The true athlete should have character, not be a character

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.

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

You play with your soul as well as your body.

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

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

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

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.

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.

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.

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

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

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.

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

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.

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

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer.

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.

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

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.

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

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.

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 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'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do.

More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to claim one.

I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

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!