Athlete Quotes

I personally believe that professional athletes should give back to their communities in any way possible. We are in a position to make a difference.

So many people get caught up in being a pro athlete and think they are better. I don't feel like I've ever changed or acted any differently because of the situation I'm in or that status I have.

The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.

For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.

You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models.

The way to stay popular as a quarterback in the NFL is never to play.

So far China has won the most gold medals, ladies and gentlemen. The Chinese athletes can't wait to get home and show the medals off to the kids who made them.

What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

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.

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

I have always liked a challenge.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own power than to run flat out in the lead or in second and then run out of fuel with a lap to go.

With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

Any sport you're going to do, you're going to lose more than you win. People don't realize how hard it is to be an athlete. It's difficult.

There are so many highs and lows for an athlete. But the highs outweigh the lows.

If you want to run for president, you better be an athlete. It's 24/7. It never ends. You give up your personal life completely and you have something of a chance to be shot.

Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.

I love coaching. I would probably be coaching. I would work in athletes and work with the youth. I would maybe do personal development and athletics. I would coach in high school or college.

I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them.

It's always a dream to be on the cover, it's one of the things an athlete always aspires to do, to be on the cover of a videogame, but I never thought I would get to do it this quick.

Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .

I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?'

On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.

I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.

I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.