Athlete Quotes

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.'

Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.

We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.

You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

You are worth so much more than points on a scoreboard or wins vs. losses. The best athletes I know are also some of the best people I've ever met.

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

My mom called me up and said you almost had that one, moms are the greatest, you can't do wrong by your Mom. She blames it on everybody else but me.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.

You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.

Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money.

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.

When I watch a singer perform, or an athlete, I can't help but be driven to be the best I can be at my craft.

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.

If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar.

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.