When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman. — Lisa Guerrero Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody in any sport ever sucks. You're an athlete. You're a professional. — Marquise Goodwin Copy Share Image
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible. — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world. — Herm Edwards Copy Share Image
When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball. — Nia Jax Copy Share Image
The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that… — Andy Roddick Copy Share Image
Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
There's not an athlete in the world who doesn't deal with the same issues you and I have: frustrations with our family,… — Doris Burke Copy Share Image
As an athlete, when you are on that field and the fans get really engaged and you can feel their energy and… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
Something is swelling up among our athletes. Many of them are frustrated, everywhere in the world, and they are looking for a… — Travis Tygart Copy Share Image
To be a well-rounded person and know what's going on in the world around you, to have a perspective outside of your… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I never really knew what it meant, to win, until one day I was flying on the Phoenix Suns airplane, the team… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
A lot of people probably think I'm not athletic or don't even try to work out or whatever, but I do. Just… — Prince Fielder Copy Share Image
No building is better than its structural foundation, and no man (woman) is better than his (her) mental foundation. When I prepared… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
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