Professional athlete Quotes

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

— Dennis Rodman

I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.

— Billy Horschel

As a professional athlete, I've been booed by 18,000 people.

— Jason Collins

Professional athletes die twice.

— Steve Nash

It truly takes a village to become a professional athlete.

— Zach Ertz

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

— Walter Dean Myers

I had a fantastic career. I loved being a professional athlete.

— Becky Hammon

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

— Kyler Murray

After any game you're going to get the love, the hate: That's just what comes with being a professional athlete.

— D'Angelo Russell

I worked my whole life and dreamed my whole life of being a professional athlete.

— Gary Woodland

We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.

— Rafael Nadal

Being a professional athlete, people respect the fact that I respect eSports professional gamers.

— Gordon Hayward

I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.

— Bryce Dessner

Every professional athlete has fear, doubts and negative thoughts. But people expect you to just ignore them and move forward.

— Dutee Chand

As a professional athlete, part of my job is to make sure I'm consuming high quality nutrients.

— Christen Press

I always thought I would make it as a professional athlete but I thought it would be playing soccer.

— Cub Swanson

Ever since I was a little boy, I had my eyes set on being able to say I was a professional athlete.…

— Colton Underwood

We get stereotyped so much. Look, people are going to think what they're going to think of me, but if I'm myself…

— Channing Frye

We can make a huge impact. We can be that difference maker just because of our status and because of what we…

— Davone Bess

A female professional athlete has to have the whole package, as opposed to a guy who can just be good at sport.…

— Caroline Buchanan

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything…

— Dominick Cruz

Anything, any job you want to do in the world, you have to put in the work, especially when it comes to…

— Nikola Vucevic

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests…

— Hope Solo

As a professional athlete, I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in…

— Chael Sonnen

Once upon a time, it was hard to decipher what was more difficult to stomach: the foolish, detrimental behavior of a professional…

— Stephen A. Smith

I always wanted to be a professional athlete, it just took me a while to realise it would be in racing. I…

— Chantal Sutherland

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models… It's not like it was when…

— Charles Barkley

The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They…

— Tom Peters

I've never had to make weight for any sport before. Because, get this, I was not allowed to do any sports in…

— Rich Swann

I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay.…

— Stacy Peralta

To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It's often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have…

— Andrew Luck

[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“I realized that all of them—like me, like everyone—make mistakes, struggle with their weaknesses, and don’t feel that they are particularly special…

— Ray Dalio

“That’s why just about every top professional athlete has been laid low by injury, sometimes a career-ending injury. There was a moment…

— Rafael Nadal

My dream was always to be a professional athlete.

— Eva Marie

Nobody in the world can tell me I'm not a professional athlete.

— Dan Hardy

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

— Carl Lewis

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

— Robin Yount

Nick Aldis is a great champion. He looks like a professional athlete. He dresses like one. He carries it well.

— Jim Cornette