Athletes Quotes · Page 9

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

— Brendan Foster

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.

— Sri Chinmoy

I don't think I have whatever that thing is that makes some athletes bad with money.

— Iman Shumpert

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

— Kim Clijsters

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

— Daley Thompson

As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to…

— Landon Donovan

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

— Gordie Howe

Personally, I love athletes on Twitter. I think it gives them an opportunity to engage and show some of their personality.

— Jemele Hill

“The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection You could limit your human existence to filling your shape…

— Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

It's been a privilege to get to watch one of sports greatest athletes prepare and get to play with him; honestly... it's…

— Julian Edelman

Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to…

— Beth Brooke

The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of…

— Cat Osterman

There are so many world-class athletes who are great at their sport, but they're so boring. They don't talk, and they can't…

— Eddie the Eagle

People get confused with athletes, especially ultimate competitors. They think they are the same on and off the field. Once you see…

— Jalen Ramsey

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Everyone has their own opinion, but I'm always for the athletes to be able to make some money off of their name,…

— Todd Gurley

I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me…

— Kristin Armstrong

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a…

— David Stern

I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them…

— Vijender Singh

Like most athletes, I like to go home and relax. I try not to bring the game home with me. I might…

— Nick Ferguson

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter…

— Don Kardong

I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to…

— Rick Pitino

I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was…

— Kris Holden-Ried

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

— Armstrong Williams

“Well-trained athletes have an easier time achieving flow because they are less physically self-conscious.”

— Fitzgerald Matt

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

— Jimmy Haslam

There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their…

— Dolph Lundgren

I'm very familiar with World of Sport, some of the characters, and great athletes.

— Tony Khan

There is a stigma around athletes, and I think the more that us as humans can do to break those, the better.

— Colton Underwood

Never let your fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

— Anonymous

As professional athletes, we get pitched business or investment opportunities all the time, wherever we are.

— Rob Gronkowski

In the early 1980s, top athletes hardly got the kind of exposure needed.

— P. T. Usha

The greatest athletes in the world play in the NHL there is no question about that.

— Joe Bowen

Athletes get emotional over sports all the time because its not just a game, it's life.

— Maria Micah Rosales

If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

— Bobby Knight

I think it's important for athletes to set a tone in a way that we're looking to build bridges.

— P.K. Subban

I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

— Taufik Hidayat

Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts.

— Asafa Powell

I just think it's really great to see athletes painted in a picture that you don't usually get to see us in.

— Liz Cambage