I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people. — Alan Smith Copy Share Image
It's best to keep a strategic fight and try to win because the level of the sport is so high. — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
I was just too slow in sports to get out of the way, and so I got hit a lot. — Jim Justice Copy Share Image
As athletes, we want to represent our country to the best of our ability. — Mirai Nagasu Copy Share Image
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Aggression is not just the emotion that you show on the field, but at the end of it, you have to ensure… — Anil Kumble Copy Share Image
Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that… — Beth Riesgraf Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about football is that football is the only sport where you quit playing when you get a lead. — Mike Leach Copy Share Image
Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take… — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes - not necessarily because these people are… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I'm lanky and I've always been lanky, but I was a really good athlete. Everything I've ever done in sports, I've done… — Aleister Black Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and… — Carol Mann Copy Share Image
No matter what I do I'll always be Canadian. What happened with me being banned was not about the sport of racquetball,… — Kane Waselenchuk Copy Share Image
I've never trained anyone that I haven't known as a child. I knew Kirkland when he was 12. Every one of them… — Ann Wolfe Copy Share Image
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
