Athletes Quotes · Page 5

Professional athletes die twice.

— Steve Nash

Actors are athletes of the heart.

— Antonin Artaud

When you compete with better athletes, you also get better.

— P. T. Usha

Athletes are moved - human beings are moved - by challenges.

— Marc Gasol

It's funny, because athletes want to be rockers and vice versa.

— Matt Willig

Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.

— Elana Meyers

Too many athletes do not admit their weaknesses.

— Bill Toomey

Dancers are the athletes of God.

— Albert Einstein

As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit.

— Mary Pilon

It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult.

— Anne Donovan

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

— Linford Christie

“Life isn't about how comfortable I can be it is about learning how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable”

— Heather Gillis

Books changed my perception about the sacrifices we make as athletes.

— P. R. Sreejesh

To me, the travel is part of the business, it's what we do as athletes.

— Jozy Altidore

The NFL is the best athletes in the world with the best work ethic.

— Carl Nassib

Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.

— Jack Nicklaus

The number of really good athletes is decreasing. People don't want to work as hard anymore and they complain. In the future,…

— Marquise Goodwin

I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets…

— Shane Koyczan

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

— Bill Rodgers

There are a lot of young great athletes out there; they're much better athletes than what we were. They're bigger, faster, stronger,…

— George Steele

I was always raised as a student first and an athlete second. I think that's the main purpose in college. Some athletes…

— Jameis Winston

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will…

— Liu Xiang

That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential.

— Amy Purdy

Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.

— Robin S. Sharma

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a…

— David Stern

Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play. The…

— Linda Sanchez

“Athletes, we were supposed to just be there, and in class I made it a point that I was prepared for every…

— Lenny Wilkens

People think that athletes have it great, and we do in a lot of regard, but universities make a hell of a…

— Chris Borland

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they…

— Paula Radcliffe

I have never heard a doping offender say he felt good about doing it. Not a single one. Some athletes justify their…

— Travis Tygart

Athletes are always talking about money at a time when everyone else is struggling so badly to make it. We all make…

— Tom Brady

It's important for closet gay athletes everywhere, not just at the professional level, but more importantly athletes at the younger level in…

— Scott Fujita

A lot of athletes want to have a break, but they don't do it.

— Petra Kvitova

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who…

— Tyson Gay

Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.

— Adam Rippon

I want soccer to be a stable profession that attracts young female athletes when they graduate from college.

— Christen Press

I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

— Earl Campbell

You don't want athletes who are as dry as a bone, you don't want to turn your TV on and see someone…

— Dereck Chisora

Theres that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

— Lisa Guerrero

Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support.

— Mary Lou Retton