Athlete Quotes

• It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

  

  Jim Courier
  • Athlete

• As an athlete, you really see a lot of the Instagram paradigm. Where it's just like, 'Me! Me! Me!' When you realize you can 'Give, Give, Give,' it's very interesting, and it's good.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Athlete

• The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • Actor

• As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

  

  Beth Brooke
  • Up
  • Athlete

• The fans had become used to looking toward the scoreboard whenever a gymnast stuck a landing. You could tell they were thinking, 'Was that good enough? Would the numbers read 10.00?' The athlete was looking, too.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Looking

• Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Good
  • Help
  • Parents

• The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin
  • Athlete

• I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Athlete

• I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Better

• Russell Wilson knows who he is. He’s not a running quarterback, he’s not a throwing quarterback – he’s an athlete back there playing the quarterback position. He knows that, he understands it and his team allows him to be who he is.

  

  Charles Woodson
  • Position
  • Quarterback
  • Russell Wilson

• My fitness inspiration has always been athletes, my whole life. Serena Williams is a great friend of mine and Ronda Rousey - we did Sports Illustrated together. Obviously, following powerful women and seeing their bodies and how hard they work is really inspiring to me. Gigi Hadid

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • Together
  • Powerful
  • Sports

• An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Live
  • Never
  • Athlete

• At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Day
  • End
  • Professional

• I just do my work, try to do everything I can. I don't weigh in all offseason. I just try to get better, be in better position, be an athlete.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Work
  • Better
  • I Can

• I was an athlete when I was younger and played a lot of sports, including golf, but I always ended up throwing around my clubs in frustration.

  

  Eric Winter
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Frustration

• When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Justice

• I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Guy
  • Emotional
  • Ego

• My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Water
  • Training
  • Drinking

• I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

  

  Matt Kemp
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Hand

• While I'm an athlete and while I'm fighting actively, I don't intend to pursue a career in politics. What happens after that, we'll see. But I don't have an intention to do both at the same time.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Time
  • Career
  • Fighting

• Michelle Kwan means more to the United States Olympic Committee than maybe any athlete that's every performed. She's a leader, she's been gracious, she's somebody to cherish forever. She's a real loss to the United States Olympic Committee, to the United States of America and, I think, to the world.

  

  Peter Ueberroth
  • Leader
  • Athlete
  • Loss

• Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

  

  Frank Shorter
  • Time
  • School
  • Athlete

• The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

  

  Plato
  • Athlete
  • Too Much
  • Savage

• I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Team

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