Athlete Quotes

1476 Athlete quotes by 824 unique authors

When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens. — Ozzie Smith
Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous. — Sidney Crosby
Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each… — Katarina Witt
You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best. — Grete Waitz
As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most… — Mary Lou Retton
It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. — Mort Walker
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins. — Major Taylor
A bird can fly as high as it wants but it eventually has to come down to earth and get some water... and when it… — Kimbo Slice
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them. — Ralph Marston
If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. — Shane Koyczan
I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to… — Aly Raisman
My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So… — Venus Williams
When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it. — Lindsey Vonn
We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on… — Kerri Walsh
To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. — Shawn Johnson
I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. — Lou Holtz
The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds… — Timothy Shriver
The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena… — Aimee Mullins
Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect. — Magic Johnson
If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make… — Unknown Author
When you need a friend, you can always count on your teammates. — Jim Brown
To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who… — Dianne Holum
There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed. — Unknown Author
Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game. — Bill Bradley

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