Athlete Quotes · Page 14

Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.

— Dot Richardson

The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.

— Andrea Bocelli

I am a beloved athlete all over the world.

— Wanderlei Silva

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

— Kyler Murray

I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing

— Pieter van den Hoogenband

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

— Bob Wickman

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.

— Venus Williams

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

— Jerry Rice

Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to…

— Prince Fielder

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing…

— Bob Gibson

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out…

— Florence Griffith Joyner

[Yasuhiro] Yamashita is a respected judo master not only in Japan but across the world. To me, he is an example of…

— Vladimir Putin

I guess every athlete has in the back of his mind being good at a sport and making it big.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

The things that I rely on, USADA doesn't have a problem with them. I'm gonna continue to be the same athlete that…

— Jorge Masvidal

If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have…

— Holt McCallany

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great,…

— Bill Vaughan

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my…

— Gail Devers

I love coaching. I would probably be coaching. I would work in athletes and work with the youth. I would maybe do…

— Donovin Darius

Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They…

— Harold Brodkey

When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top,…

— Lindsey Vonn

All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our…

— Nick Goepper

There's mornings when my body aches or my mind is just not with it. But that's part of being an athlete and…

— Jonathan Horton

My stats don't even need to be said, but I'll say them anyway. I'm a 14-time champion. I'm a two-time Slammy award…

— The Miz

I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can't be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing…

— Bill Walton

Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant;…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found…

— Jesse Owens

“The strongest athlete isn't the one who finishes first. That athlete is the fastest. The strongest athlete is the one who gets…

— Antonio Iturbe

When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was…

— Ruth Westheimer

The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive…

— Evander Holyfield

As inherently franchise-altering as drafts are, as monumental as they can be in the sport's history, you still can't get past the…

— Will Leitch

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s…

— Anonymous

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.

— Ron Atkinson

I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.

— Ben Saunders

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

— Ernie Banks

I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.

— Dennis Haysbert

Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.

— Dennis Eckersley

I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.

— Robin Cousins

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

— John Kruk