Achieve Quote by Jo Frost

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they…

— Ivan Lendl

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in…

— Frank Shorter

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models… It's not like it was when I was…

— Charles Barkley

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in…

— Frank Shorter

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

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

— Lynn Davies

Any athlete can preach to this, that when things aren't going well, you tend to bring it home, and the people that take the…

— Jermaine O'Neal

I think it's quite difficult to follow in your parent's footsteps in the same sport.

— Princess Anne

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them,…

— Bob Lilly

It's important for parents to put kids in positions where they can succeed and to teach competition because competition exists not only in sports.

— Ray Allen

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other…

— Billie Jean King

“When the parent is qualified to discipline, he probably does not feel like it, and when he feels like it, he is probably not…

— Douglas Wilson