Pro athletes, most of their life, they have been told how good they are, and celebrated at every turn, and people think… — Darren Waller Copy Share Image
Athletes are going to tease each other. Football players want to be baseball players. Baseball players want to be football players. Basketball… — Ken Griffey Jr Copy Share Image
Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it.… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Making it financially does not protect you, though. Genetic gifts and a gigantic professional contract do not shield athletes from the effect… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and… — Ryan Sheckler Copy Share Image
I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with… — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
People put football players up there for being tough, but if you look at the schedule and the actual minutes played, NBA… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become… — Steve Backley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made… — Jennie Finch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal. — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
Like anybody else, athletes like to pig out on a bit of junk food every now and then, but they also know… — William Katt Copy Share Image
That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential. — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will… — Liu Xiang Copy Share Image
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were… — Warren Moon Copy Share Image
“CrossFit Games athletes are renowned for their ability to suffer, but this event tested everyone’s limits of endurance, stamina, fortitude, and pain… — Ben Bergeron Copy Share Image
I've got full faith in the Australian public that they'll get behind athletes with a disability - and not just to get… — Dylan Alcott Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled. — Bill Rodgers Copy Share Image
I was always raised as a student first and an athlete second. I think that's the main purpose in college. Some athletes… — Jameis Winston Copy Share Image
There are a lot of young great athletes out there; they're much better athletes than what we were. They're bigger, faster, stronger,… — George Steele Copy Share Image
The general public does not really understand what athletes do away from competition time. They know there will be some exertion involved,… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
I've got to go out there and do a job and focus on swimming and do my own thing, and I think… — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
Whether it's basketball, football, baseball, you like meeting other athletes to see how their jobs work, and everything like that. — Johnny Gaudreau Copy Share Image
I really don't know how athletes manage to do it, having kids while they're still competing and being able to stay at… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
Athletes aren't allowed to have an opinion. It's tough. Athletes are evolving right in front of our eyes. You see athletes who… — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
You don't really get to witness what athletes go through. Like, the sacrifices and stuff like that. It's by far the most… — Steven Adams Copy Share Image
“Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Every country wants to protect its athletes because it's ultimately Germany vs. Spain, America vs. China; sports are an extension of the… — Bryan Fogel Copy Share Image
Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing,… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
Olympic athletes are a different breed. We're not dealing with million-dollar contracts. We don't do the sport for those deals. We do… — Rulon Gardner Copy Share Image
It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga over movie and music stars, and the… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
