I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal…

— George A. Sheehan

I love the communication aspect with my athletes. I like the one on one time with my athletes but really its about making them…

— Robin Farina

Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of…

— Oscar Pistorius

There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so…

— James Joyce

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of…

— Eduardo Galeano

Mission makes athlete-specific products. I always use their sunscreen - it's an anti-sting formula, which is huge for me because it doesn't burn my…

— Gretchen Bleiler

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

— Lisa Guerrero

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