Athletes Quotes · Page 8

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

— Anne Donovan

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

— Heather Gillis

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

— P. R. Sreejesh

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

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

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

— Earl Campbell

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

— Christen Press

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

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

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

“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

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

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

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing,…

— Daley Thompson

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

So many athletes are afraid to use their platform to do the right thing and speak what they feel, and that's very…

— Martina Navratilova

When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at…

— Adam DeVine

The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren't hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such…

— Hannah Storm

Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are…

— Joe Taslim

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis.…

— Don Yaeger

College athletes are workers, period. They are skilled and disciplined young people who deserve so much more than to be treated, in…

— Jamaal Bowman

There are days when I still wake up angry, and no one handles it perfectly all the time, but honestly, I feel…

— Charlie Kimball

I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever…

— John Amaechi

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

— Adam Rippon

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

— Jack Nicklaus

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

The most important thing to me is to inspire all these athletes in the next generation.

— Tobin Heath

The WNBA is constantly called the best league in the world, yet we don't get treated like the best athletes in the…

— Liz Cambage

As athletes, it is our responsibility to be role models. But we are not superheroes.

— Marcelo

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

— Clara Hughes

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.

— Eric Heiden

As aspiring athletes, you should never give up on your dreams. Just believe in yourself, and everything will be possible.

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

The peacocking nature of baseball players and athletes in general - you're all kinda competing for who's got the most swagger.

— Glen Powell

I'm an athletic junkie - I play in all the celebrity all-star games, and I've become buddies with a bunch of athletes.

— Jesse Williams

Especially as pro athletes, at the highest level, what we put into our bodies plays a huge part in our performance.

— Andre Iguodala

Truly sports is a great unifier as our athletes come from villages and cities, north to south, from east to west.

— Anurag Thakur

On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it…

— Eric Heiden

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.

— Bob Costas

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

— Linford Christie