Athlete Quotes · Page 8

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

— Frank Shorter

“I'm an artist not an athlete.”

— Lisa Schroeder

I try not to be a typical athlete.

— Tyronn Lue

Skating is now retro and hip.

— Robin Cousins

It doesn't take talent to hustle.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

— Hugh Bonneville

I was not an athlete in college.

— Steve Bullock

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

— Antonin Artaud

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

— Grete Waitz

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

— Florence Griffith Joyner

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

— P. T. Usha

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

— John F. Kennedy

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

— Kerri Walsh

My athlete idol is Usain Bolt. He's inhumanly fast!

— Laurie Hernandez

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

— Damon Hill

That comes with being an athlete. Not everybody is going to be on your side.

— Deebo Samuel

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of…

— Linford Christie

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

— Mike Vallely

Championships are not won on the night of a big event, but years before by athletes who commit themselves daily to championship…

— Dick Devenzio

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

— Ted Simmons

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

— Don Zimmer

Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some…

— Haile Gebrselassie

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both…

— Tyson Gay

If I meet somebody and they ask me what position I play, I always just say an 'athlete' or that I do…

— Peyton Hillis

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would…

— Ralph Boston

When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into…

— Tony Dungy

There is nothing we cannot do for an athlete. If a guy wants to write a book, great. If he wants to…

— Rich Paul

I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and…

— Gabrielle Roth

As a former NFL athlete, my quality of play on the field was in direct correlation to how I took care of…

— Devon McDonald

Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure…

— Bob Cousy

One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which…

— Roger Bannister

And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]loves being a star. And she loves being a teacher and a leader and a mentor and a big…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in…

— Roger Angell

We know that for the last 300 or 400 years, the size of human bodies is growing. Now what happened is that…

— Garry Kasparov

In the NFL game today, there are a lot of better athletes than I am, and quarterbacks these days are faster than…

— Peyton Manning

I typically like to train with the mentality of a high-performance athlete. I put in the work and do what it takes…

— Kelly Rowland

If you watch Rafael Nadal play tennis, you can only respond with amazement and great admiration. He is an incredible athlete with…

— Steffi Graf

Sometimes we want to have growth without challenges and to develop strength without any struggle. But growth cannot come by taking the…

— Paul V. Johnson

Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the…

— David Whyte