Athlete Quotes · Page 33

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

— Steve Largent

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

— Bela Karolyi

We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.

— Mike Newlin

My dream was always to be a professional athlete.

— Eva Marie

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

— Carl Lewis

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

— Bill Shoemaker

I was always a good athlete. I just gave up on football.

— Lil B

Nobody in the world can tell me I'm not a professional athlete.

— Dan Hardy

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

— Carl Lewis

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and…

— Robin Cousins

I've been an athlete most of my life and on a disciplined schedule. Working out for me is just part of my…

— Apolo Ohno

I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.

— Anonymous

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you…

— George A. Sheehan

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

— Frank Bruno

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against…

— Dick Fosbury

I was a big kid and a big athlete, but let's be honest: I don't know diddly about football.

— Big Show

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can…

— Brandi Chastain

Tradition is something you can't bottle.You can't buy it at the corner store.But it is there to sustain you when you need…

— Fritz Crisler

I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that…

— Bela Karolyi

The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over…

— Drew Brees

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual…

— Germaine Greer

We all know the guy who sits at the end of the local bar telling the story of how he threw the…

— Don Panoz

I really didn't realise until I got back the work that goes into a performance. You're like an athlete - if you…

— Michael Crawford

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and…

— Alexis Arguello

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax…

— Henry David Thoreau

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

— Frank Bruno

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

— Wilma Rudolph

An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.

— Dwyane Wade

I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.

— Chris Long

We will win with character, not with characters.

— Bob Weltlich

I was fully immersed in the now as an athlete.

— Kyle Shewfelt

Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

— Laird Hamilton

I was always more of an athlete. I like to compete.

— Rohan Marley

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

— James Roday

I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live.

— Usain Bolt

When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.

— Anonymous

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

— Oscar Robertson

The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty.

— Paavo Nurmi

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

— Lisa Guerrero

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

— Jack Ramsay