Athletes Quotes · Page 10

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

— Yohan Blake

When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.

— Charlie Rose

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

— Michael Waltrip

As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.

— Landon Donovan

I had the opportunity to run up and down the court with the greatest athletes in the world.

— Tim Donaghy

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

— Charles C Noble

Most pro athletes are super competitive, super clutch, and they don't want to lose at anything.

— Phil Hellmuth

In athletics there are so many great elite athletes who look like me, so it was easy to fall into.

— Kadeena Cox

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They…

— Jerry Leiber

I don't think we know who a lot of these athletes are. We think we do, but they're never allowed to be…

— Joe Buck

People don't really understand how important our voices are. I think there's a lot of athletes that don't use their power that…

— Kyle Kuzma

We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy…

— Dominique Moceanu

As professional athletes, we live such a privileged life. We make tons of money, everything goes our way and we play a…

— Jason Sehorn

I love to experiment with my looks and dresses on and off the court because I love to turn out very well.…

— P. V. Sindhu

Most college athletes are obsessed with getting to the pros, and many of them have proved they will do anything to get…

— Jemele Hill

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

— Derek Bok

That's a part that's always a challenge for athletes: trying to keep the passion alive while knowing it's still your job. There's…

— Landon Donovan

We can find athletes. The biggest challenge is personality. It's finding charisma. In most sports, they tell you to turn down the…

— Triple H

Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you…

— Taufik Hidayat

When you're a 20-something-year-old athlete and you're getting a six-figure check every week, you're not thinking about next week. You're not thinking,…

— Michael Strahan

I think it's up to the rest of us to try to create that environment where those closeted athletes out there know…

— Jason Collins

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at…

— Arne Duncan

No matter how little we think anatomy should matter to one's social and political rights, surely we can't pretend biology doesn't matter…

— Alice Dreger

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

— Jordyn Wieber

I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

— Earl Campbell

You don't want athletes who are as dry as a bone, you don't want to turn your TV on and see someone…

— Dereck Chisora

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who…

— Tyson Gay

Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.

— Jack Nicklaus

Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.

— Adam Rippon

I want soccer to be a stable profession that attracts young female athletes when they graduate from college.

— Christen Press

To me, the travel is part of the business, it's what we do as athletes.

— Jozy Altidore

The NFL is the best athletes in the world with the best work ethic.

— Carl Nassib

As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit.

— Mary Pilon

As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.

— Deena Kastor

Books changed my perception about the sacrifices we make as athletes.

— P. R. Sreejesh

“Life isn't about how comfortable I can be it is about learning how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable”

— Heather Gillis

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

— Linford Christie

It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult.

— Anne Donovan

I don't believe my athletes care what I know, until they know that I care.

— Teri McKeever