It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate. — Sarah Hughes Copy Share Image
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit… — Sandy Koufax Copy Share Image
Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image
I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take… — Al Kaline Copy Share Image
I had some very fit people. I worked with a lot of athletes helping them, especially combat athletes, MMA fighters,[Dennis] Bermudez, [Chris]… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and… — Aly Raisman Copy Share Image
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes.… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
I'm in the gym three to four days a week, depending on how I'm feeling. With chest, legs and back being the… — Albert Pujols Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Dusty Rhodes was a great athlete. Actually, he was a baseball player as well. He played football but he played baseball. That… — Ted DiBiase Sr Copy Share Image
I have never heard a doping offender say he felt good about doing it. Not a single one. Some athletes justify their… — Travis Tygart Copy Share Image
Israel is one of the easiest places to play ball. When I say easy I am referring to the easy lifestyle an… — Michael Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every athlete has training they enjoy and training that they do because they have to and they don't enjoy so much. Do… — Alistair Brownlee Copy Share Image
I was so small, I wasn't even going to go back out for my junior year. But my mom and dad sat… — Mark Buehrle Copy Share Image
I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who… — Marcus Giles Copy Share Image
You can no longer just be a good sailor. You have to be an incredible athlete as well. Having said that, you… — James Spithill Copy Share Image
Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with… — Kristi Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
With 'Love & Basketball,' I played ball my whole life and did track at UCLA. So, I'm an athlete. And it was… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what… — John Smith Copy Share Image
Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in… — Linford Christie Copy Share Image
I have always seen myself as an athlete. Of course, I made the mistake of unintentionally opening the door to my private… — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car… — Geoffrey Boycott Copy Share Image
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all… — Sydney Biddle Barrows Copy Share Image
I drink during every show. I can't remember the last show I did completely sober. It works for me. I use it… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models… It's not like it was when… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the… — Nastia Liukin Copy Share Image
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Tom Brady blew me away. Who's the most famous athlete of our generation: Tom Brady? LeBron? Messi? Ronaldo? Serena Williams? Maybe I… — Chris Long Copy Share Image
I can't give other people what I've not experienced to some extent myself. It sharpens your game and also, like any athlete,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
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