I was an athlete when I was growing up.

I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be…

— Chris Pratt

I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore training, a…

— Jacquelyn Jablonski

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

— Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be an athlete growing up.

— Rob Gronkowski

I was an athlete growing up and I miss that. I miss hanging out with dudes and making raunchy jokes and telling stories, trading…

— Chris Pratt

Shaquille O'Neal was probably my favorite athlete growing up. I loved how dominant and unstoppable he was, but also his charisma off the court.…

— Jahlil Okafor

My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.

— Nick Foles

It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different…

— Olly Murs

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

Growing up I was a huge Michael Vick fan.

— Marcus Mariota

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

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