Athlete Quotes

I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim

It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off.

We will win with character, not with characters.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough over the years for me to maintain my friendships.

Models are like athletes: You burn hard and fast.

When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.

I believe that by living as athletes we live more fully.

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

We're the greatest athletes in the world without a doubt.

The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.

In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.

My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.

We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a cameo.

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could in an instant.

I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

Being a runner, professional or recreational, means that you are part of a community that stretches across the globe.

My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.

I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.

When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.

Acting is easier than skating in ia way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

It's interesting about people who choke. I'm, believe it or not, a good athlete. I've watched people choke over the years.

Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag.

I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to the good stuff.

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.

I'm a Mormon. I don't do a lot of the off-the-field activities that athletes are known to do. And I guess I've created a world that is unlike the typical world of a professional athlete.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.

Professional athletes die twice.