Athlete Quotes · Page 40

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the…

— John Cho

Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard…

— Jason Lee

I was an athlete, but I hung out with the band guys. I was adaptable.

— Josh Holloway

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

— Libby Trickett

Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building…

— Gary Catona

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

— Dennis Eckersley

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you…

— Michael Johnson

I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they…

— Claudia Rankine

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until…

— Arthur Lydiard

To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good…

— Brock Yates

It means a lot to be accepted as an athlete as I have and I can be myself.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make…

— Dick Butkus

In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration.

— Tegla Loroupe

This year I spent two months in Australia, and I did all the training camps in London. It was a really hard…

— Peter Kauzer

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

— Linford Christie

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be…

— Dick Gregory

Any sport you're going to do, you're going to lose more than you win. People don't realize how hard it is to…

— Diandra Asbaty

As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be…

— Jeremy Roenick

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

— Austin Reaves

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

— Timothy Gallwey

Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was…

— Benjamin Boukpeti

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

— Lisa Guerrero

“you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who…

— Rosemary Rawlins

I'm not just a footballer; I'm a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.

— Jack Wilshere

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were…

— Warren Moon