"I would never encourage my children to be……" — Bill James
"I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate."
—
Bill James
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
More Athlete Quotes
This quote is filed under Athlete Quotes,
one of 1,476 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it…
— Lance Armstrong
-
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
— Lance Armstrong
-
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
— Lance Armstrong
-
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
— Arthur Ashe
-
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
-
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
-
I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say…
— Tyra Banks
-
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think…
— Roger Bannister
-
I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and…
— Roger Bannister
-
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
See all 1,476 Athlete Quotes »