Athlete Quotes · Page 48

I'm excited to work with SCARPA because it's opened up a whole new playground to me as an athlete.

— Lynsey Dyer

As a football player, as an athlete, as a competitor - that dream of being able to play in the Super Bowl,…

— Chris Hogan

I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.

— Mardy Fish

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could…

— Magic Johnson

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting…

— Charles Barkley

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

— Summer Sanders

I'm not just a footballer; I'm a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.

— Jack Wilshere

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It…

— Damon Hill

It has been said that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is something that an athlete will remember for the rest…

— Jeff Fenech

I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete…

— Maika Monroe

Sonnen, to me, he's a great athlete, but he created that image so much for himself that people don't think he's that…

— Demian Maia

I think we have to keep putting women's sports in the limelight. I thought the Women's World Cup did a wonderful job…

— Becky Sauerbrunn

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

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

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of…

— Roger Bannister

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all…

— Jim Bouton

I was an athlete in college - a quarterback, a leader - so people telling me what to do doesn't work.

— Rakim

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We…

— Linford Christie

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think…

— Pele

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of…

— Brian McKnight

I try to take the approach that everyone really is an athlete at some level. I mean, we were all on the…

— Gunnar Peterson

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile…

— Dean Smith

I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of…

— Erick Barrondo

I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is.…

— Stephen Boss

Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

— Said Aouita

Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style.

— Frank Bruno

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.

— Anonymous

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

— Michael Phelps

If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant.

— Renato Canova

I like to think I defied the odds my entire life, definitely my entire athletic career.

— Aljamain Sterling

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an…

— Gene Kelly

To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it,…

— George A. Sheehan

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't…

— Bill Cartwright

Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.

— Moses Malone

An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or…

— Arnold Palmer

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base…

— Omari Hardwick

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

— Daniel Tosh

I would love to do a sports biopic. I love sports and I think it would be amazing to be a part…

— Neha Dhupia

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing…

— Greg Rusedski