Athlete Quotes · Page 54

I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field,…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I would love to do biopic on P.T. Usha because I have been an athlete.

— Pooja Batra

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions.…

— Harvey Mackay

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes…

— Haile Gebrselassie

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.

— Daniel Tosh

Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.

— Moses Malone

Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

— Ron Hill

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

— St. Jerome

Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an…

— Debbie Meyer

I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a…

— Rafael Nadal

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

— Jeremy Renner

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

— Jason Collins

I regret that I was never an athlete. I regret there isn't time in life. I regret that so many of my…

— Richard Rodriguez

I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.

— Gina Carano

I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.

— Michael Jordan

First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have…

— Andre Agassi

Body does what mind prefers.

— Lenny Krayzelburg

You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.

— George Foreman

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

— Michael Johnson

The principle is competing against yourself.

— Steve Young

Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.

— Don Kardong

I was always the best athlete, people don't know that. But I was successful at everything I ever did and then I…

— Donald Trump

There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and…

— Guy Davenport

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