Athlete Quotes · Page 44

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

My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was…

— Victor Cruz

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

— Anonymous

To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have…

— Herm Edwards

I would not change my career to be a pro athlete. A team could trade me and my band cannot!

— Ivan Moody

As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves.

— Wilson Chebet

To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill…

— Marv Albert

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

You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating…

— Greg Rusedski

I'm lanky and I've always been lanky, but I was a really good athlete. Everything I've ever done in sports, I've done…

— Aleister Black

A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and…

— Carol Mann

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a…

— Colson Whitehead

I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it…

— Libby Trickett

It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to…

— Pete Sampras

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

— Hugh Sidey

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be…

— Dwyane Wade

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

— Daley Thompson

It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

— Michael East

I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say.

— Vince Young

People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium…

— Bobby Orr

I've always tried to be a complete athlete and not limit myself to one position or one sport. It really helped mold…

— Christian McCaffrey

No actually I don't. I play real sports, not tryin to be the best at exercising. -Kenny Powers

— Eastbound And Down

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble…

— Venus Williams

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

— St. Jerome

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

— Tony Dungy

I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the…

— Ronda Rousey

I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want…

— Johnny Weir

Everyone probably says this, but my favorite athlete is Tony Hawk. I'd really love to meet him.

— Mason Cook

I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe…

— Eric Heiden

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

— Lisi Harrison

If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.

— Gerald R. Ford

I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back…

— Kenyon Martin

I think the biggest thing for all athletes is recovery - being able to bounce back from week to week, practice to…

— Larry Fitzgerald

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

— Howie Long

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

— Armstrong Williams

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

— Paula Radcliffe

Being a runner, professional or recreational, means that you are part of a community that stretches across the globe.

— Lanni Marchant