Athlete Quotes

• Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Athlete

• Let's start with the athlete, Nike's original and most important collaborator. To us, everything starts with the insight. That's why we work with the deepest roster of athletes, to gain the most profound understanding of what's needed to perform.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

  

  Frank Shorter
  • Different
  • Children
  • Professional

• I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Athlete

• Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

  

  Bill Russell
  • Great
  • Athlete

• You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Summer

• I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

  

  Dayron Robles
  • Responsibility
  • Pride
  • Athlete

• There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Golf
  • Accepted
  • Rebellious

• I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Great
  • Real
  • Pretty

• For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very, very good guitar player, but it's like he's trying to hide it. I always loved this attitude. When you're very good... it's like being an athlete - and I always hated sports!

  

  Laurent Brancowitz Phoenix
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Player

• It's an incredible feeling, 110,000 people energy at that level. What I realized from watching the first day of competition was that athletes that got excited and happy and got the fans into it and clapping, they did better. The athletes that took it too seriously, they didn't do as well as they'd hoped.

  

  Gabe Jennings
  • People
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• I guess I'm just not the film femme fatale type. I giggle too much. I have freckles and a turned-up nose, and I walk like an athlete.

  

  Joan Caulfield
  • Up
  • Athlete

• I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.

  

  Dennis Haysbert
  • Age
  • Athlete

• That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Good
  • School
  • Athlete

• There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.

  

  Boo Weekley
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.

  

  Pete Sampras
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Athlete

• I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.

  

  Bill Nye
  • May
  • Bad
  • Athlete

• I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Together
  • Think
  • Doing

• The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • Athlete
  • Coaches

• Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Time
  • World
  • Luck

• It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

  

  Jaycie Phelps
  • Different
  • Business
  • Risk

• My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

  

  Joe Taslim
  • Parents
  • Athlete

• To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Art
  • Style
  • Athlete

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