Athletes Quotes · Page 11

Female athletes, women in sports, need to be highlighted all the time.

— Breanna Stewart

When you're young, you do dumb things. I just can't understand why some other athletes never were extended that same excuse.

— Jemele Hill

“the school’s administration favored athletes, making excuses for them while coming down hard on others for lesser offenses.”

— Sue Klebold

Supporting black professional athletes was taken seriously in my home.

— Clint Smith

Professional athletes, like it or not, have a responsibility to the kids of America.

— Howie Long

Good athletes will be there at good competitions, but I don't think about them; I just think of bettering my own time.

— Hima Das

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

— Lolo Jones

But when you're cheating against your fellow athletes, that's something I can't forgive.

— Jimi Manuwa

“The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with…

— Donald Bradman

I think athletes need to be better at portraying themselves and promoting themselves. You can't just sit and wait for the media…

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made…

— Jennie Finch

You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind…

— John Kessel

Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become…

— Steve Backley

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

— Bill Bradley

Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians…

— Juan Williams

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably…

— Tyra Banks

I haven't done any major filming with a major production company yet, but I've definitely done a lot of filming with a…

— Nick Goepper

We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition…

— Bill James

I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this…

— Nelly

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can…

— Maurice Greene

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can…

— Maurice Greene

Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We're kind of out on a boat by…

— Amy Jo Martin

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my…

— Bill Simmons

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

— David Haye

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

— Axl Rose

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.

— Scott Speedman

After winning a medal, many athletes give up and go into oblivion, the reason being lack of encouragement.

— P. T. Usha

We can do a lot of different things as athletes - we can speak, we can mentor, we can coach.

— Bethanie Mattek-Sands

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

— Raul Lopez

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

— Walter Payton

Athletes have their career for 15 years and you have to make the most of it because once it's over, it's over.

— George Russell

They are always open to come to South Korea and play, because we never reject North Korean athletes.

— Park Ji-sung

We're professional athletes, and we have moments where we step back, and we have to think and assess everything in life.

— Nick Foles

Some college athletes don't want to turn pro, they don't want to take the cut in pay.

— Nipsey Russell

As female athletes, we're all strong. We all have gone through something in our life that has helped shape us to where…

— Breanna Stewart

An athlete is not a robot, not a machine. Wellbeing of athletes is absolute necessary.

— Abhinav Bindra

We're often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.

— David Duval

I have lots of athletes in my family and they showed me how to waterski - slalom, barefoot - all that stuff.

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining…

— Kobe Bryant

I think it's a unique breed of athlete on the offensive line. We're built differently than a lot of other major athletes.

— Jason Kelce