Athlete Quotes · Page 56

I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing…

— Anonymous

I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

— Kobe Bryant

I'd love to have a lasting impact as far as growing the game. It would be cool to be remembered as a…

— Rickie Fowler

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

— John Madden

If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating…

— John Salley

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine,…

— Roger Bannister

In the old days, athletes got worked up about the strict rules - today they get worked up about these rules being…

— Travis Tygart

I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every…

— Summer Sanders

(Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record) I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

— Noureddine Morceli

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

I just started training with the best fighters in the world trying to get better. I was a pretty good athlete so…

— Robbie Lawler

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

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

— Frank Shorter

To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're…

— Julia Mancuso

I was the first athlete in the country to have a personal coach.

— P. T. Usha

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you…

— Dick Schaap

All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter…

— Lawrence Taylor

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the…

— Eric Fischl

I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the…

— Yvon Chouinard

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

— Twyla Tharp

I work with a trainer called Ruben Tabares. He's a nutritionist, strength and conditioning coach, and an athlete. So I literally just…

— Tinie Tempah

I am an athlete, a warrior.

— Oleksandr Usyk

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 find it is a challenge being a student athlete, but I am the kind of individual that loves challenges. I see…

— Perdita Felicien

Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my…

— John Irving