I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

— Scott Caan

When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.

— Ken Kercheval

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

— Joan Cusack

The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it's like every young black boy people…

— Martellus Bennett

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a…

— Carl Lewis

I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

— Katarina Witt

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

— Fred Perry

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

— Pat Riley

I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't…

— Alex Morgan

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that…

— Chris Cleave

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered…

— Colson Whitehead

Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned…

— Naveen Jain

I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm…

— Jonathan Gottschall

I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm…

— Rich Mullins

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

— Jesse Owens