Athlete Quotes

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

Actors are athletes of the heart.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.

I think the biggest thing for all athletes is recovery - being able to bounce back from week to week, practice to practice, to come back in top form.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.

I think a singer is an athlete. I've always tried to stay fit. Until my knee said, "Uh-uh," I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don't like walking a lot, but I'll push them.

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.

Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.

I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.

An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.

Athletics is a luxury.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

I never claimed to be anything more than a nice guy and an athlete.

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

Do not speak defeat, speak victory.

Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

He must be lightning slow.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us.

Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.