Athlete Quotes · Page 2

I've been an athlete my whole life.

— Bianca Belair

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

— Heywood Hale Broun

I'm not a very good athlete.

— Mike Webster

Athletics is a luxury.

— Roger Bannister

Tom Brady is my favorite athlete.

— Kelsey Plum

I think I'm a good athlete.

— Johanna Konta

I like going to the gym every day.

— Frank Bruno

Kid Rock is a hell of an athlete.

— John Daly

You play with your soul as well as your body.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

— Keegan-Michael Key

I play real sports, not try to be the best at exercising.

— Kenny Powers

I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

— Ricky Williams

I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.

— Nigel Mansell

You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.

— George Foreman

The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

— Franz Stampfl

“But everyone’s an athlete, he said. If you have a body, you’re an athlete.”

— Phil Knight

I like to think that when an athlete wears Armani, it makes him or her feel confident, and as we all know,…

— Giorgio Armani

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

— Damon Hill

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

— Barack Obama

Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior…

— Noureddine Morceli

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

— Dustin Poirier

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

— Alberto Juantorena

I'm an athlete. I'm a performer. Why the hell did I never think of combining the two?

— Sonya Deville

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame…

— Kristin Hunter

I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a…

— Paul Newman

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my…

— Josh Charles

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions.…

— Harvey Mackay

I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not…

— Mary Roach

I used to go to some Harvard parties with my athlete friends, and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.'…

— Winona LaDuke

The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play…

— Geno Auriemma

Representing Canada as a hockey player is always a tremendous honor, which also comes with a lot of responsibility. Being able to…

— Scott Niedermayer

Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their…

— Tom Platz

Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the…

— Mindy Kaling

The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it…

— Lance Armstrong

I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see…

— Harbhajan Singh

I came out as a gay as I have earned myself respect as an athlete. I have only lost 2 out of…

— Orlando Cruz

“The best source of knowledge concerning the most effective methods of coping with the challenges of endurance sports is the example set…

— Matt Fitzgerald

The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes…

— Jose Canseco