Athlete Quotes

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

If you don’t have fun, it’s hard to do your best. It’s not going to be enjoyable.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not.

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.

You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete.

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

I'm excited to work with SCARPA because it's opened up a whole new playground to me as an athlete.

I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.

As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

These athletes can be considered the gods in certain ways and the fans can be considered parishioners.

As an athlete, I've always been very proud to represent the United States.

The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.

Paula, your retirement is the one that every athlete dreams.

Yeah, I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!

If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

I see myself as an athlete and just try to market myself as a feminine athlete.

Barry Sanders, by far. Not only one of my favorite Lions, but one of my favorite NFL athletes. It's all about highlights for me, I'm a receiver! Sanders is like the NFL version of an And1 mix tape.

All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our own way of doing things. That's the way I do things and I'm proud of it.

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.

I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.