Athlete Quotes · Page 32

Every athlete wants to represent their country or region in the Olympics.

— Jackson Wang

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

— Apolo Ohno

I never in a million years thought I would be able to be a Paralympic athlete.

— Oksana Masters

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

— Jim Courier

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

— Pat Riley

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

— St. Jerome

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

— Fred Perry

I eat right, I train right, I've been an athlete my entire life.

— Bruce Buffer

[Yasuhiro] Yamashita is a respected judo master not only in Japan but across the world. To me, he is an example of…

— Vladimir Putin

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

— Lynn Davies

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment,…

— Roger Bannister

I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like…

— Jason Mraz

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you…

— Ken Robinson

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

— Steve Young

Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old…

— Boris Becker

Understand that I'm at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I'm a better fighter…

— Bernard Hopkins

I know I will have to come to forgiveness and acceptance of what has happened for me to go on and be…

— Elin Nordegren

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame…

— Kristin Hunter

I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a…

— Paul Newman

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my…

— Josh Charles

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions.…

— Harvey Mackay

I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not…

— Mary Roach

Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building…

— Gary Catona

I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets…

— Michael Weatherly

The concussion crisis has changed the face of sports as we know it and it has brought to surface the incredible importance…

— Ben Utecht

You can fight based on a strong mind, based on developing your muscles and reflexes, training your motor functions and going back…

— Bruce Frantzis

It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And…

— John Bingham

I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm…

— Wayne Gretzky

I kind of just lost track of laps. I couldn't hear a split. It was just so loud in here everyone was…

— Will Leer

Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.

— Gordie Howe

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

— Nastia Liukin

You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.

— Saku Koivu

I've been a high-level athlete since I was five years old.

— Chad Mendes

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

— Pete Rose

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

— David Duchovny

As a competitor, as an athlete, you want the ball to come to you.

— Adam Thielen

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

— Natalie Gulbis