Athlete Quotes · Page 49

I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what…

— Chad Harbach

People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about…

— Daley Thompson

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous…

— Frank Bruno

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional…

— Will McDonough

In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go…

— Dot Richardson

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a…

— David James

I'm not your cookie-cutter athlete, and that scares people. People don't know how to take that.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

— Fidel Castro

I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it's ok to fall, but I am going to…

— Tiger Woods

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as…

— Inge de Bruijn

As an athlete you have to think about yourself a lot. Think about your body, think about your mind, staying healthy, staying…

— Justin Gatlin

While I'm an athlete and while I'm fighting actively, I don't intend to pursue a career in politics. What happens after that,…

— Fedor Emelianenko

Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as…

— Nathan East

Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I had been cut from the basketball team every year. But I was like, 'I can turn it around! Michael Jordan made…

— Hasan Minhaj

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're…

— Bruce Jenner

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

— Julie Benz

I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport.

— Jason Collins

I'm an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don't get or ever got the respect from people.

— Anderson Silva

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

— Julia Leigh

The athlete has the advantage of being able to advertise in the media what he wants to do when he retires.

— George Mikan

I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far…

— Johnny Weir

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

— Kobe Bryant

The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

— Ken Doherty

Technically I don't play sports because I have two left feet and I cannot coordinate and my motor skills are a bit…

— Nicole Seah

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

— James S. Coleman

There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances…

— Lolo Jones

I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my…

— Melanie Roach

I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into…

— Claire Carver-Dias

A lot of people who watch figure skaters want us to look like pretty princesses. I want people to see the athlete,…

— Ashley Wagner

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

— Mario Balotelli

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't…

— Kerri Walsh

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me…

— Cathy Rigby

Being a professional athlete, people respect the fact that I respect eSports professional gamers.

— Gordon Hayward

I became a process-oriented athlete; one who believed in giving it his best shot and not bothering about the outcome.

— Abhinav Bindra

After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is…

— Peyton Manning

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform?…

— Kobe Bryant

But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established.

— Shinzo Abe

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game…

— Bill Bradley

It's an amazing life, don't get me wrong. But being a professional athlete, is... is not as glamorous as everybody sets it…

— Zack Steffen