Athlete Quotes · Page 9

I'm not the best athlete.

— Ben Zobrist

I was a horrible athlete.

— Daniel Espinosa

I'm a national level athlete.

— Pooja Batra

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.

— Lee Westwood

I love being a Sweden athlete.

— Armand Duplantis

We're not cameras, we're artists.

— Frank Bruno

Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

— Edoardo Ponti

I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.

— Mitsuo Tsukahara

Coos Bay is a sports-minded town. You had to be an athlete to be somebody.

— Steve Prefontaine

You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.

— Martellus Bennett

Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.

— Mark Rippetoe

I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything

— Shannon Miller

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

— Knute Rockne

One athlete I absolutely love is Melissa Stockwell.

— Jessica Long

Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.

— Anthony Horowitz

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

— Bill Rodgers

I hate to be sporty and athletic. I wish that I could be, but I just wasn't born that way.

— Rob Pruitt

Injuries are psychologically so hard for an athlete because you don't get to do what you love to do.

— Julian Edelman

I am all athlete, and that's important, that my looks have nothing to do with what I do in the WWE.

— Charlotte Flair

It's not enough to just test athletes. The athletes themselves need to fight for their right to compete against clean athletes.

— Travis Tygart

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

— John Wooden

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

— Mirai Nagasu

There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a…

— Roger Bannister

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles…

— Serena Williams

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they…

— Felix Dennis

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser. To be a winner, we must…

— John Patrick Boles

Sure, there are times when the guys talk about playing football in school and I can't relate to that, but I can…

— Megan Alexander

Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through…

— Lolo Jones

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk…

— Anonymous

As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department…

— Michael Porter

“Muhammad Ali has a lot to answer for. When he lit the flame at the Atlanta Olympics there wasn't a dry eye…

— Michael Robotham

I think I've always had the shots. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I'm starting to get…

— Pele

To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good…

— Brock Yates

MMA is in like the bare-knuckle era as where boxing once was. What it has to do is be given time to…

— Rico Chiapparelli

There's three things that as a professional athlete you want. You want to get to the big leagues, and I accomplished that.…

— Albert Pujols

I believe that coaches and athletes should realize that the athletic department field, court or diamond can be made an extension of…

— Phillip Shriver

In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing…

— Terry Orlick

My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because…

— Karch Kiraly

To be an elite athlete is really hard when you're depressed.

— Liz Cambage

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

— John Kruk