Athlete Quotes · Page 42

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me…

— Chris Evert

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

— Major Taylor

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

— Carl Lewis

“The athlete doesn’t stop smoking and start training. He starts training and finds he has stopped smoking.”

— George Sheehan

The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of…

— Timothy Shriver

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

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

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

— Ralph Marston

I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode…

— Kristin Armstrong

I would want America to know our kids need us. Spend as much time with your kids as you can. Enjoy them.…

— Tony Dungy

That's something a lot of athletes miss - a lot of them walk away too soon. They don't get everything out of…

— Jimmy Connors

I'm still an athlete, I'm still a stockbroker, I'm still an actor. I think of it as more of an opening of…

— Brian J. White

To be the best, you need to be the most well-trained and well-prepared athlete you can be. The pressure is going to…

— Michelle Kwan

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want…

— will.i.am

Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the…

— Derek Bok

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my…

— Daley Thompson

It's interesting about people who choke. I'm, believe it or not, a good athlete. I've watched people choke over the years.

— Donald Trump

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look…

— Walter Payton

As an athlete, I just try my best to be as good as I can. Whether people like you or not should…

— Andy Murray

I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady…

— Marion Jones

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

— Neve Campbell

All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.

— Haile Gebrselassie

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the…

— John Cho

Sports provides the chance for the athlete, unlike the ordinary person, to open the door and meet people.

— George Mikan

Whether you're a veteran like me or a high school athlete, the most important thing you can do is keep your body…

— Jason Terry

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more…

— Vince Lombardi

If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be…

— Meredith Rainey-Valmon

You know when you are an athlete, nothing is supposed to be wrong. Everything is supposed to be easy and life is…

— A'ja Wilson

I feel like I've been an athlete my whole life and I don't want to get burnt out. I want to have…

— Mackenzie Dern

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

— Robert A. Heinlein

With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.

— Torrey Smith

When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.

— Greg Rusedski

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

— Amanda Beard

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

— Hale Irwin

The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.

— Jozy Altidore

My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.

— Lou Holtz

The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

They want everything to be better for their children. I think athletes are starting to see that and that's why they're starting…

— Andrew Hawkins

You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good…

— Martina Navratilova

I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great.

— Lance Berkman