My whole life I was always an athlete with motocross. It's…

I like to pick on figure skating, which is very athletic but it's not a sport.

— John Part

I think first, dance is a creative expression, and then second... And what is the word? Athletic. It's a sport. It takes a lot…

— Gabby Windey

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

— Douglas William Jerrold

This is a virile sport in which physical contact is allowed.

— Miroslav Klose

My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that…

— Elliot Cowan

What I do now is I train in the mornings, and people ask me why I do it. I do it for two reasons:…

— Leo Varadkar

The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness…

— Johnny Weir

I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short,…

— David Nalbandian

Even though over the last years I've had more and more success and I've been getting better on the tour, I think I've lived…

— Casper Ruud

Through my professional life as both an athlete, and latterly with organisations such as the Youth Citizenship Commission, I've seen first hand the power…

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

I worked my whole life to be an athlete, to be physically capable of whatever a coach needs me to be capable of.

— Greg Hardy

For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.

— Giancarlo Esposito

Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.

— Jon Jones

I feel like there is a pretty crazy mix between my personal and work life because being an athlete is a 24-hour job.

— Iga Swiatek