Athlete Quotes

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

We, as athletes, have our suspicions about who's cheating, but I'm not convinced that the testing has yet caught up with what people are using or what they are using to disguise it.

We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

Some athletes are super fashionable and not good. It's like c'mon man focus on your craft, be who you're supposed to be and then go put on the clothes.

I think every athlete that’s just out here for the Olympics just does something to inspire those around them and inspire each other.

You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug

An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.

Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

Marketers know that if people you respect - perhaps laughably including entertainers and athletes - say they like a product, you're more likely to buy.

I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.

I love the communication aspect with my athletes. I like the one on one time with my athletes but really its about making them better athletes and finding out what makes them tick.

Cycling is a sport of amazing athletes. Its been a privilege and a honor for me to be in this sport and to have a chance to race at the highest level.

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.

I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won.

I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.

Competitiveness drives my blood. I'm an athlete at heart and I just love the competition. I can't live without it. It's just a rush.

When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.

The guy is the greatest male athletes of all time.

I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.

I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish, but to carry the flag of your country is doubly thrilling.

I think that to be a competitive athlete, you have to be goal-oriented.

I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.

About strip clubs and athletes. The best way I can explain why a lot of players end up there is because it's one of the safest places a high-profile person can spend time in a boring city.

I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up.

I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.

I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete.

I guess I'm an athlete now. I gotta start going to the gym.

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

I don't believe my athletes care what I know, until they know that I care.

For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over.

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

You ought to go to the Wizard of Oz and ask him for some courage.

The game of soccer has been able to give me what I wanted out of life. I just remember being a total Tomboy and athlete as a girl, but never having a lack of opportunity.

I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it's ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.