Athlete Quote by John McNally

Professional athletes die twice.

— Steve Nash

Someone might come close to dying, and they'll enjoy life much more than everyone else. I came close to the death of my sports…

— Vincent Kompany

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

— Charlie Sheen

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains…

— Jeffrey Kluger

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

— Ian Botham

Far too many athletes have been unable to let go of their troubled roots or just have failed to fully understand their new lives…

— Jemele Hill

Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we've been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career,…

— Tessa Virtue

I don't want to say that when you're an athlete, you take things for granted, but you do. We're supposed to go out and…

— Channing Frye

Before being an athlete, I'm a person, a human being, like the ones Open Arms are saving every day.

— Marc Gasol

What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not…

— Lance Armstrong

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things…

— David Duval