I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal. — Lindsay Davenport Copy Share Image
I think that to be a competitive athlete, you have to be goal-oriented. — Shannon Miller Copy Share Image
I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule. — Bum Phillips Copy Share Image
Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes. — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
Somewhere behind the athlete you have become, and hours if practice is a little girl who picked up a ball, fell in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. — Fred Perry Copy Share Image
I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results… — Libby Trickett Copy Share Image
What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport. — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I was always smaller and slower than everybody else, so I had to figure out other ways to be successful. Some people… — Becky Hammon Copy Share Image
In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that… — Elka Graham Copy Share Image
My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
It's exciting for any professional athlete going through something to just stay true to who you are, keep your head down, keep… — Minkah Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in… — Bobby Orr Copy Share Image
It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that… — Lou Brock Copy Share Image
My thing I liked was to challenge guys that were smaller, guys that were supposed to be quicker. Because I think self-consciously… — Wilt Chamberlain Copy Share Image
As the longest-running women's professional sports league in the country, the WNBA is a great product comprising 132 of the best female… — Laurel J. Richie Copy Share Image
There's a better way to speak out against President Putin and call out his bigotry for exactly what it is: speaking up… — Greg Louganis Copy Share Image
A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what… — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen, he had everything. Two good feet. Magic in the air. Quick. Powerful. Could… — Osvaldo Ardiles Copy Share Image
