Athlete Quotes

Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts.

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

When you are public figure, you're an athlete or actor, that is your job to speak out on certain things. I think you speak out on what you desire to speak out on or your passionate about.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can.

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what you're the fastest.

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

Athlete or not, I’m going to make sure you know how to read.

There are all these athletes out there cheating. I am clean and pure.

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.

It is about what you do when nobody is watching. Can you always stay on your grind, or are you only a star when the lights are on you and everybody is watching?

Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.

The greatest athletes in the world play in the NHL there is no question about that.

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great.

We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.

It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.

I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

I thought the race could be won in the last kilometers in the park. Every hill I ran in training I ran to gain an extra step in the park.

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.

As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

Nobody's more important than the team.

I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.

In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

I have been dubbed 'the girl who puts the glamour into hammer'

I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.