Our athletes are our heroes.

Growing up where I grew up, we looked to athletes. They were our first heroes. They came from the same places we came from.…

— Jay-Z

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

— Cathy Rigby

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

— Charlie Sheen

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

Whether it's basketball, football, baseball, you like meeting other athletes to see how their jobs work, and everything like that.

— Johnny Gaudreau

As athletes, we want to represent our country to the best of our ability.

— Mirai Nagasu

Athletes can not look the same and be great in their individual sport. The example I like to use is Gabby Douglas. She could…

— Michelle Carter

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

— Lisa Guerrero

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in…

— Anonymous

I think athletes in general, your days are numbered. Any time you can kind of learn and grow from an entrepreneurship standpoint and ownership…

— Mark Ingram II

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

— Haile Gebrselassie

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

— Bill Rodgers

Somewhere behind the athlete you have become, and hours if practice is a little girl who picked up a ball, fell in love with…

— Anonymous

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any…

— Geoff Johns

The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of our 40th…

— Mike Pence