Athlete Quote by Rafael Nadal Download Open image “The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality.” — Rafael Nadal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athlete Athletes Athletes Supposed Mature Mature Improve Personality Sports Supposed Mature Young Young athletes
When you make a young player feel young, it doesn't necessarily help them - they often want to be treated like everyone else. If… — Eniola Aluko Copy Share Image
As professional athletes, we're used to inspiring the next generation, people who are younger than us. — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had… — Cathy Rigby Copy Share Image
Look at the guys at the the top of the sport, a lot of them are early 30s and that's when they really hit… — Brad Tavares Copy Share Image
We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not. — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Engaging in sports from a young age will ensure physical and mental well-being. — Brian Lara Copy Share Image
I think a lot of athletes when they get in their mid and late 30s, they focus more on kids, on family. — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
It's a must for us to get higher education since athletes seem to be contended with being good in training and in their events,… — Hidilyn Diaz Copy Share Image
We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving. — Christine Taylor Copy Share Image
Young players, they can't rely on their talent. They have to have the desire and the work ethic and the belief and the commitment… — Jesse Marsch Copy Share Image
I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
Nobody can ask me more when I try all my best all the time, no? So, you know, if I lose another time in… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure. — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That's also true of tennis; the… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
