Athlete Quotes

• I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Athlete
  • Kid

• If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

  

  Alberto Juantorena
  • Up
  • Career
  • Risk

• I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

  

  Mary Decker
  • Time
  • Career
  • Athlete

• When I was a junior and an up-and-coming athlete, I don't think I looked to anyone for inspiration. I was so busy trying to improve myself and learning these new events and learning about the decathlon in general that I didn't really have time to focus on anyone else.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Learning
  • Focus
  • Inspiration

• I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

  

  Kevin James
  • Up
  • Tough
  • Tough Day

• I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago... the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

  

  Jesse Owens
  • Long
  • Purpose
  • Victory

• I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.

  

  Marion Jones
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

  

  Bob Lilly
  • World
  • Children
  • Parents

• 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

• I always wanted to be a professional athlete, it just took me a while to realise it would be in racing. I played field hockey competitively for Ontario since I was 13, 14. Then I tried for the national side and made it. But it was so competitive. The girls were just so big and strong. I was getting crushed.

  

  Chantal Sutherland
  • Strong
  • Professional
  • Hockey

• Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Help
  • Athlete

• If I wasn't a pro-athlete, I would probably eat any dessert dish every day!

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Dessert

• Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Money
  • Athlete

• 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

• The IOC have decided Russia will pay them £50 million, and that is their punishment for 40 years of duping the world and going against every single clean athlete on earth. The IOC has fought a spectacular fraud with more fraud.

  

  Bryan Fogel
  • World
  • Earth
  • Single

• Collin Jackson was a little before my time and he was a really good athlete. I've raced with him, but he's now retired. He's a really good role model and someone that I've learnt a lot from.

  

  Liu Xiang
  • Time
  • Good
  • Model

• To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Innovation

• 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

• The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

  

  Emil Zatopek
  • Today
  • Team
  • Alone

• I'm an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn't bother me. I don't get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don't go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I'm not into fitness, but I feel I should start, as it's healthy.

  

  Genelia D'Souza
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• 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 brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Great
  • Live

• Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

  

  Kanye West
  • Professional
  • Garden
  • Athlete

• My life was always different growing up. I mean, even before the show, my dad was who he is. He's an Olympic athlete. And we were going to premieres, like 'Finding Nemo' premieres, and we would be little kids, like, before the show, walking down the red carpet.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

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