Athlete Quotes · Page 73

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

— Clara Hughes

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

— Lindsay Davenport

My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

— Amanda Beard

It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast,…

— Roger Bannister

I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.

— Shaquille O'Neal

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day.…

— Adrian Rogers

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

— Apolo Ohno

I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing…

— Jason Collins

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make…

— Sun Tzu

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

— Mario Balotelli

I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like…

— Jason Mraz

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think…

— Becky Sauerbrunn

Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.

— Jamie Farr

We, as athletes, have our suspicions about who's cheating, but I'm not convinced that the testing has yet caught up with what…

— Paula Radcliffe

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

— Shawn Johnson

I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't…

— Michael Bland

I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.

— Ron Atkinson

I'm impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

— Gabrielle Reece

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

— Kobe Bryant

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could…

— Magic Johnson

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success…

— Aimee Mullins

The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.

— Frank Bruno

Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They…

— Anonymous

It was tough. That may happen at the Trials. You are so in the zone when you are in there it's tough…

— David Oliver