Athlete Quotes · Page 39

As an athlete, there is no bigger compliment in my mind you can pay a guy when you say he can get…

— Johny Hendricks

Somewhere behind the athlete you have become, and hours if practice is a little girl who picked up a ball, fell in…

— Anonymous

Maybe it's the athlete in us all where you know you don't want to lie down and just take it.

— Rob Burrow

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

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

As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

— Tom Brady

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

What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.

— Jack Nicklaus

So many people get caught up in being a pro athlete and think they are better. I don't feel like I've ever…

— Carson Palmer

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or…

— Joan Cusack

All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter…

— Lawrence Taylor

Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes…

— Russell Means

I kind of rode this weird line between athlete and artist. It was a little different because most of the athletes were…

— Terry Crews

Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by…

— Steve House

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how…

— Brett Favre

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four…

— Paul Theroux

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

I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

— Kate Voegele

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Brendan Foster

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became…

— Will McDonough

Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated.

— Mary Kay Andrews

All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be…

— Derrick Rose

Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals.

— Billie Jean King

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

— Tony Romo

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't,…

— Baron Broers Alec Broers

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

— Bill Bradley

I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to…

— Greg Proops

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought…

— Jack Nicklaus

I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and…

— Misty Copeland

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game…

— Michael Powers

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

— Nigel Mansell

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

— James Caan

I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing…

— Herschel Walker

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.

— Alfred Shrubb

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

— Kim Clijsters

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

— Michael Horton

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

— Tyson Gay