Athlete Quotes · Page 26

When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

— Ozzie Smith

I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs.

— Willie Carson

Paula, your retirement is the one that every athlete dreams.

— Milagros Cabral

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

— Shaquille O'Neal

People still think I'm a bit of a buffoon - not really an athlete.

— Eddie the Eagle

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

— Jayson Williams

I'm an athlete and a professional, I like challenges and this is my driving force.

— Ivan Perisic

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

— Bruce Jenner

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct…

— Jim Thorpe

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to…

— Chris Evert

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

— Jesse Owens

Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.

— Uriah Hall

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

— Roger Bannister

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like…

— Dan O'Brien

I'm not an athlete dater, really. I would get too jealous. They're really gone all the time. Different hotel rooms.

— Christine Teigen

The biggest learning is that an athlete needs to know when to stop. To know that if I push beyond this, there…

— Neeraj Chopra

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them.…

— Don Kardong

Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff…

— Joe Biden

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything…

— Dominick Cruz

It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able…

— Terrence Trammell

I like the challenge of getting players to rise to certain levels, but that's the easy part. The biggest challenge is to…

— Dawn Staley

A female professional athlete has to have the whole package, as opposed to a guy who can just be good at sport.…

— Caroline Buchanan

You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of…

— Paula Radcliffe

The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action…

— Nigel Mansell

No building is better than its structural foundation, and no man (woman) is better than his (her) mental foundation. When I prepared…

— John Wooden

In our lives we will encounter many challenges, and tomorrow we face one together. How we accept the challenge and attack the…

— Beth Anders

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax…

— Henry David Thoreau

Throughout his many years, he enriched the lives of countless others and served as a model of generosity and discipline to those…

— William J. Clinton

When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive…

— Ida Tarbell

Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose…

— Oscar Pistorius

We tend to look at successful athletes and make them almost bigger than life. I have seen many young men who have…

— LaVell Edwards

[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them…

— David Haye

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

— Idi Amin

As an athlete, as a free agent, you owe it to yourself to explore your options.

— Sue Bird

I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.

— Ryan Leaf

I'm a purist, and I'm more a fighter than an athlete.

— B. J. Penn

Give me an athlete and I'll give you an army.

— Adolf Hitler

Being athletic has really become a big part of my career.

— Kelly Overton

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

— Linford Christie

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

— Martina Navratilova