Matter Quote by Jason Collins

My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their…

— Sebastian Coe

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many…

— Bill James

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought…

— Alexis Arguello

We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.

— Rafael Nadal

I don't care what anybody says: a pro athlete is going to be a role model. I tried to use that as a positive…

— Clyde Drexler

There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes…

— Kristopher Belman

As athletes, it's our responsibility to help. It's easy for us to go out and affect people's lives in so many different ways. We…

— Mike Conley Jr

I think it's important that we as athletes do whatever we can to help kids, primarily helping kids of color.

— Harrison Barnes

Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.

— Deion Sanders

As athletes, as people, the way we're looked at in the community, and through kids, we're looked at as role models. The more we…

— Tobias Harris

Through my professional life as both an athlete, and latterly with organisations such as the Youth Citizenship Commission, I've seen first hand the power…

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always…

— Marshall Faulk