Sports Athletes Quotes: top 36 famous quotes about Sports Athletes

Sports Athletes Quotes & Sayings

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I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport. — Tyson Gay

On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys. — Eric Heiden

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete. — Frederick Lenz

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

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do. — Kim Clijsters

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport. — Clara Hughes

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists. — Neve Campbell

I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise. — Giles Duley

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. — Robin Farina

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. — Michael Jordan

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates. — Michael Powers

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

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits. — Mike Vallely

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly. — Michael Waltrip

Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population
and usually as homosexuals. — Billie Jean King

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world. — Angela Ruggiero

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez

The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all. — Clara Mamet

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports. — Scott Bakula

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game. — Pat Conroy

Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes. — Janice Kaplan

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids. — Jim Sensenbrenner

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley

I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it. — Pat Roberts

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day. — Phil Knight

No wrong in aiming or applauding the win but always agnize one's efforts. — Mohith Agadi

If athletes could think of SM as sports, they'd understand the acceptance of pain, but they'd always want to know who was winning. — Joseph W. Bean

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes. — Dwyane Wade

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists. — Andy Murray

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

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on. — Lou Holtz

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not. — George J. Mitchell

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers. — John Roderick

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. — Jim Sensenbrenner

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing. — Alice Dreger

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