Athletes Quotes · Page 7

As athletes, we're always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don't think about it.

— Simone Biles

“The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.”

— J.C. McKeown

The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

— D. B. Sweeney

I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.

— Mariah Carey

As athletes, we want to represent our country to the best of our ability.

— Mirai Nagasu

I am not going to tolerate players turning up unfit. They are professional athletes representing a country.

— Mickey Arthur

I don't have a problem with athletes speaking up, but I want to make sure before they speak up, they read up.

— Shannon Sharpe

The best of the best are in the Olympics, all of the athletes work hard to get there.

— Hidilyn Diaz

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy…

— Mike Piazza

I'm a Mormon. I don't do a lot of the off-the-field activities that athletes are known to do. And I guess I've…

— Jeff Kent

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play…

— Lou Holtz

For some, sport is just a short chapter of their lives so I am excited to help athletes develop many life skills…

— Scott Moir

It's a must for us to get higher education since athletes seem to be contended with being good in training and in…

— Hidilyn Diaz

Far too many athletes have been unable to let go of their troubled roots or just have failed to fully understand their…

— Jemele Hill

Nothing gets under my skin more than when non athletes talk crap about their own school's teams, like you have no idea…

— Anonymous

I think there are a lot of people who say they want to be professional athletes, say they want to make millions…

— Pat Connaughton

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they…

— Paula Radcliffe

When I look at the great athletes, I think of the Kobes and the LeBrons and the Tom Bradys of the world,…

— Saquon Barkley

It's important for closet gay athletes everywhere, not just at the professional level, but more importantly athletes at the younger level in…

— Scott Fujita

I have never heard a doping offender say he felt good about doing it. Not a single one. Some athletes justify their…

— Travis Tygart

Athletes are always talking about money at a time when everyone else is struggling so badly to make it. We all make…

— Tom Brady

Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to…

— Jonathan Vilma

I do identify with Olympic athletes quite a lot because they have to push to reach a certain plateau and some of…

— Lawrence Jordan

Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo…

— Joe Taslim

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.

— Maurice Greene

Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them.

— Jimmy Iovine

We don't need any help - the athletes and the coach don't want any help to win.

— Tite

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

I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power…

— Angela Ruggiero

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

— David Duval

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

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

— Nipsey Russell

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

— Nick Foles

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

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

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

— P. T. Usha

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

— Park Ji-sung

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

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

— Walter Payton