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I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself. — Steve Carlton

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

Doing your best is more important than being the best. — Shannon Miller

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

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

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best. — Grete Waitz

Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches. — Mark Rippetoe

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

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

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

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

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

I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them. — Dwyane Wade

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

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. — Jose Canseco

I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well. — Dathan Ritzenhein

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

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

Do your best ... really that's all you can ask for from an athlete. — Jessica Penne

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

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

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

As an athlete you've got to watch your hydration and your nutrition, and use the right kinds of fuel to help you perform your best. — Derrick Brooks

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. — Michael Jordan

(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

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best. — Daniel Tosh

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. — Magic Johnson

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. — Elgin Baylor

The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create. — Bob Costas

All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become. — Derrick Rose

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

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

When I watch a singer perform, or an athlete, I can't help but be driven to be the best I can be at my craft. — Jonathan Sadowski

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life. — Pete Rose

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

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time. — Frank Shorter

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network. — Jay Leno

As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can. — Barry Bonds

The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success. — Jozy Altidore

The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can. — Cheng Fei

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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