Athlete Quotes · Page 25

I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.

— Ryan Lochte

The 200 m. is not my best event, and it's something I am learning.

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

— Roger Bannister

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

— Linford Christie

Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus.

— Hope Solo

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

— Mickey Rourke

As an athlete, it's all about confidence in general.

— Jared Dudley

We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.

— Howard Warren Buffett

I'm not your cookie-cutter athlete, and that scares people. People don't know how to take that.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a…

— David James

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

— Julie Benz

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

— Jason Collins

I'm an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don't get or ever got the respect from people.

— Anderson Silva

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

— Julia Leigh

You cant even break me running harder than an athlete. Girls sitting up on my lap mistake this for a track meet.

— Sammy Adams

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been…

— Kimberly Elise

Ever since I was a little boy, I had my eyes set on being able to say I was a professional athlete.…

— Colton Underwood

Once upon a time, it was hard to decipher what was more difficult to stomach: the foolish, detrimental behavior of a professional…

— Stephen A. Smith

The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing…

— Dick Vitale

Of course, the muscular build of athletes is always a challenge for a designer, but my clothing's softness and comfort, which are…

— Giorgio Armani

You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but…

— Lou Holtz

The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of…

— DeLoss Dodds

It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is…

— Anthony Famiglietti

As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found…

— Jesse Owens

When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was…

— Ruth Westheimer

The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive…

— Evander Holyfield

As inherently franchise-altering as drafts are, as monumental as they can be in the sport's history, you still can't get past the…

— Will Leitch

Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are…

— Aimee Mullins

when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler…

— Dhani Jones

A lot of people probably think I'm not athletic or don't even try to work out or whatever, but I do. Just…

— Prince Fielder

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

— Walter Dean Myers

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

— Pat Conroy

As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.

— Caitlyn Jenner

I had a fantastic career. I loved being a professional athlete.

— Becky Hammon

Serena's arguably the best athlete of all time, so getting to know her was surreal.

— Frances Tiafoe

Athlete or not, I’m going to make sure you know how to read.

— David Lubar

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

— Aaron Sorkin

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

— Andy Murray