Athlete Quotes · Page 47

I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and…

— Misty Copeland

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought…

— Jack Nicklaus

I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to…

— Greg Proops

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

— Nigel Mansell

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

— James Caan

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game…

— Michael Powers

I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing…

— Herschel Walker

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.

— Sri Chinmoy

Sport is quite a simple thing. It is play, and in play, people of all ages find the chance to engage their…

— Timothy Shriver

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream -- of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete -- lives the…

— Glenn Kurtz

To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words…

— Junior Seau

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it…

— Damon Hill

I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such…

— Stefan Edberg

That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be…

— Jack LaLanne

With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need…

— Valtteri Bottas

Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very…

— Evelyn Ashford

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

— Brendan Foster

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became…

— Will McDonough

Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated.

— Mary Kay Andrews

All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be…

— Derrick Rose

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative…

— Roger Bannister

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

— Charlie Sheen

I want to be recognized for my performance as an athlete and not because of who I am.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

— Damon Hill

Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma.

— Charlie White

Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what…

— Chris Rock

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done,…

— Rickey Henderson

It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever.

— James Koven

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.

— Alfred Shrubb

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

— Kim Clijsters

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google…

— Michael Horton

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

— Tyson Gay

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I'd rather be an athlete than a fighter, an athlete is going to go there and figure out the ways to win,…

— T.J. Dillashaw

I always thought I would make it as a professional athlete but I thought it would be playing soccer.

— Cub Swanson

You cant even break me running harder than an athlete. Girls sitting up on my lap mistake this for a track meet.

— Sammy Adams

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct…

— Jim Thorpe

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been…

— Kimberly Elise

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to…

— Chris Evert