Athlete Quotes · Page 32

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

Anytime an athlete deals with an injury, it forces you to revaluate and refocus.

— Tessa Virtue

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

— Phil Knight

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

I don't know about politics so much. I'm a professional athlete.

— Khabib Nurmagomedov

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the…

— Eric Fischl

I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.

— Chuck Connors

Ronda is an amazing athlete and has done so much for this sport, especially for the women.

— Amanda Nunes

The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody…

— Henry Russell Sanders

I'm an athlete - my legs were everything. I had no idea what my life would be like without them.

— Lauren Wasser

I would say I'm deceptively athletic - probably a lot more athletic than people think I am.

— Danny Green

I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.

— Scott Speedman

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a…

— Damon Hill

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times.…

— Mickey Mantle

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and…

— Chris Cleave

Most of the time, I'm fighting guys who are 22 years old, former college wrestlers, athletes, kids who are in much better…

— Anthony Bourdain

Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through…

— Gene Kelly

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and…

— Cobi Jones

“Oosthuizen's red spot is a classic example of what's known in sports psychology as a process goal--a technique by which the athlete…

— Kevin Dutton

Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of…

— Thomas Jones

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him…

— Bobby Knight

I never really knew what it meant, to win, until one day I was flying on the Phoenix Suns airplane, the team…

— Rush Limbaugh

(About importance of focusing on one sport at a time) I've never tried to do that, we have more of a holistic…

— Trey Hardee

The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get…

— Barry S. Strauss

[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them…

— David Haye

We tend to look at successful athletes and make them almost bigger than life. I have seen many young men who have…

— LaVell Edwards

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

— Oscar Pistorius

When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive…

— Ida Tarbell

Throughout his many years, he enriched the lives of countless others and served as a model of generosity and discipline to those…

— William J. Clinton

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

The way to stay popular as a quarterback in the NFL is never to play.

— Cliff Stoudt

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.

— Michael Diamond

As an athlete, player, anybody, you want to make shots.

— Austin Reaves

I was a very good athlete: actually professional in the sport of handball.

— Cris Cyborg

I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.

— Mariah Carey

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

— Lou Holtz