Friendly Quote by George Allen, Sr

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to…

— George Allen

Professional athletes, most of us came from the streets. We feel like we know the streets and can pretty much protect ourselves. But now…

— Ben Wallace

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports…

— Carl Lewis

No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion…

— Samoa Joe

The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

— Cheng Fei

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

— Jimmy Haslam

We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that.

— Elana Meyers

In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic…

— Mirai Nagasu

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in…

— Fedor Emelianenko

One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more…

— Cameron Winklevoss

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

— Malcolm Gladwell