Dad Quote by Apolo Ohno

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever…

— Venus Williams

There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you…

— Don Andrews

My dad did not want me to take up sport initially, he was worried that I would get injured.

— P. T. Usha

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

— Hale Irwin

Nothing is certain in a sportsperson's life. There can be an injury, performance can go down, others can do better than me.

— P. R. Sreejesh

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered…

— Colson Whitehead

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at…

— Haile Gebrselassie

In sports you often become part of something greater than yourself.

— Tom Brady

For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.

— Giancarlo Esposito

you'd definitely think of me more as a good sport than as an athlete.

— Gabrielle Burton

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

— Roberto Clemente

Before my family - my wife and my daughter - baseball was probably 85 percent of my life.

— Francisco Lindor