My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.

— Lee Trevino

'Jim Thorpe - All American' influenced me as a young kid.

— Herm Edwards

As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take…

— Barry Bonds

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd…

— Channing Tatum

We get it all the time. 'Oh, if I didn't have to go to work all day I could be a CrossFit Games athlete…

— Mat Fraser

For an athlete, there's no time off... until it's over.

— Terry Bradshaw

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

— Steve Carlton

“Football is an angry game, played with punishing violence," he writes. "People get destroyed on the field, lives end. It makes sense that its…

— Rich Cohen

Tom Brady is my favorite athlete.

— Kelsey Plum

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

The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.

— Mike Epps

Even though I'm from Detroit, my favorite NFL team is the 49ers. My mother went to junior college in the Bay area and Joe…

— Jemele Hill

Everyone probably says this, but my favorite athlete is Tony Hawk. I'd really love to meet him.

— Mason Cook

“John Thorpe [...] was a stout young man of middling height, who, with a plain face and ungraceful form, seemed fearful of being too…

— Jane Austen

“...but I didn't care, because the magnificent possibility of kissing Cassidy Thorpe had turned into an indisputable fact of my daily existence...”

— Robyn Schneider