Athlete Quote by Michael Waltrip

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

— John Arlott

Newsflash: competitive athletes fight sometimes. They also are egomaniacs.

— Jemele Hill

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules.

— George Orwell

There is a stigma around athletes, and I think the more that us as humans can do to break those, the better.

— Colton Underwood

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

— Artie Lange

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

— Ted Simmons

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

— Lisa Guerrero

Theres that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

— Lisa Guerrero

People say I wasn't a real athlete, but I trained hard. It's possible to take something seriously and still have fun at it, you…

— Eddie the Eagle

Athletes aren't allowed to have an opinion. It's tough. Athletes are evolving right in front of our eyes. You see athletes who are politicians,…

— Jaylen Brown

I think athletes are, in general, tired of so much of their persona being controlled by the media.

— Jemele Hill

It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in…

— Will Self