Athlete Quotes

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.

People complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don't understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.

The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.

The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.

A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

The idea here is simple, if you can dream it, it is possible.

I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.

When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.

The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the World.

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

I'm not a woman that's an athlete! I'm an athlete!

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.