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Athlete Quotes & Sayings

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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. — Lance Armstrong

Is it going to make me feel any better to make an extra million? That million might be more important to the team. — Tom Brady

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

There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human. — James Joyce

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

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. — Herschel Walker

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is. — Bill Bradley

Attitude might be worth 80 percent of any athlete's makeup. — Erk Russell

In an athlete, it is not the legs that go first — Ken Dryden

I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity. — Ted Ligety

Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete. — Joakim Noah

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer. — Walter Dean Myers

I don't mind being a professional. As an athlete you are a role model, people are watching what you wear, listening to everything you say, — Jalen Rose

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important. — Tony Dungy

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

Whether you're a veteran like me or a high school athlete, the most important thing you can do is keep your body healthy. — Jason Terry

So much of our future lies in preserving our past. — Peter Westbrook

All athletes would be better if they eat better. Junk in equals Junk out. — Jack LaLanne

The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist. — Marty Liquori

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age — Aaron Sorkin

If I was going to play this game and love it, it had to love me back. — Amy Lane

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives! — Bela Karolyi

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

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals. — LeBron James

Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from. — Jamie Farr

A true champion and athlete is never satisfied with their performance. You can always do more and always improve. — Clay Guida

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it. — Lindsey Vonn

You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete. — George Foreman

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do. — Mark Wahlberg

Phelps, even at a young age, had a capacity for obsessiveness that made him an ideal athlete. Then again, all elite performers are obsessives. — Charles Duhigg

You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman. — Martina Navratilova

Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot. — Uriah Hall

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood. — Frank Rich

The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world. — Cathy Freeman

I was an aesthete rather than an athlete, and my only wish was to be an ecstatic wanderer. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I personally believe that professional athletes should give back to their communities in any way possible. We are in a position to make a difference. — Carson Palmer

It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors ... It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest. — Craig R. Barrett

The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time. — Michael Wilbon

I always say that I'm a clean athlete and that I should be randomly tested anytime, urine and blood. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe. — Randy Castillo

As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing. — Rashad Evans

Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential. — Red Auerbach

I've been an athlete most of my life and on a disciplined schedule. Working out for me is just part of my every day. — Apolo Ohno

A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet. — Lolo Jones

Have fun, because that's what life is all about. — Ryan Lochte

Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value. — Don Yaeger

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete. — Edwin Moses

I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time — Emil Zatopek

Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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

Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching. — Cory Snyder

The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete. — Bill Bowerman

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement. — Matt Biondi

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it. — Michael Horton

I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems. — Robin Williams

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

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired. — Sri Chinmoy

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it. — Pele

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete. — Brian Bosworth

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete. — Curt Schilling

I thought the race could be won in the last kilometers in the park. Every hill I ran in training I ran to gain an extra step in the park. — Paul Tergat

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

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. — Jimmy Moody

Effort is between you and you. — Ray Lewis

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic. — Kimberly Elise

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it. — Earl Blaik

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

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up. — Orel Hershiser

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

You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired. — Faye Dunaway

But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established. — Shinzo Abe

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. — Junior Seau

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports. — Yanni

When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds. — Ken Kercheval

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. — Katarina Witt

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired. — Brendan Foster

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game. — Bill Bradley

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete. — Melanie Roach

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong

As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs. — Tony Romo

(Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record)
I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m. — Noureddine Morceli

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor. — Kerri Walsh

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped. — Sugar Ray Leonard

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. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears. — Laird Hamilton

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete. — Dayron Robles

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians. — Avery Brundage

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be. — Kerri Walsh

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection. — Robert C. Solomon

I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great. — Lance Berkman

I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead. — Erick Barrondo

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

In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever. — Marion Jones

It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever. — James Koven

I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type. — Ronda Rousey

I believe that by living as athletes we live more fully. — Gloria Averbuch

Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people. — Moses Malone

If I were an athlete I'd be past my prime. If I were a dog I'd be dead. Thirty ... shit. — Jonathan Tropper

He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places. — Collette West