I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be… — Florence Griffith Joyner Copy Share Image
If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning… — Paavo Nurmi Copy Share Image
I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my… — Megan Jendrick Copy Share Image
Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence… — Marianne Limpert Copy Share Image
My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that… — Cara Castronuova Copy Share Image
As an athlete you've got to watch your hydration and your nutrition, and use the right kinds of fuel to help you… — Derrick Brooks Copy Share Image
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a professional athlete. Young men and women from Montana don't make it to the professional level that often.… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top,… — Lindsey Vonn Copy Share Image
All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our… — Nick Goepper Copy Share Image
You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when… — Walter Payton Copy Share Image
This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard… — Peter Kauzer Copy Share Image
The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I… — George Gregan Copy Share Image
When Armageddon comes, it would be good to be an Olympic athlete, because running real fast and jumping over stuff could come… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire… — John McNally Copy Share Image
I used to be a pretty decent athlete when I was young. I would like to really focus on getting back into… — Louis DeJoy Copy Share Image
Think about what caused the injury and how it can be prevented next time; that way, you will become a smarter athlete… — Kevin R. Stone Copy Share Image
I thought the race could be won in the last kilometers in the park. Every hill I ran in training I ran… — Paul Tergat Copy Share Image
Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that… — Damon Hill Copy Share Image
If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all… — Damon Hill Copy Share Image
In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win. — Sam Huff Copy Share Image
Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just… — Beth Brooke Copy Share Image
I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012. — Linford Christie Copy Share Image
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just… — Haile Gebrselassie Copy Share Image
I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
I tell people this all the time: I think Jason Peters is probably the best athlete I've ever seen play. — Jason Kelce Copy Share Image
When you're an athlete who has any notoriety and you make a major change, it's going to circulate and people are going… — De'Aaron Fox Copy Share Image
It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide. — Greg Rusedski Copy Share Image
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. — Emil Zatopek Copy Share Image
As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on. — Deena Kastor Copy Share Image
The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the… — Ira Berkow Copy Share Image
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models... — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
