Athlete Quotes

• The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

  

  Plato
  • Athlete
  • Too Much
  • Savage

• They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Good
  • Game
  • Girl

• This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776 B.C. to 393 A.D., your fellow Olympians laid down their arms to take part in these games. They understood there was more honor in out running a man than in killing him. I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • War

• I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.

  

  Billy Horschel
  • Life
  • Professional
  • Athlete

• I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

  

  David Beckham
  • Game
  • Passion
  • Athlete

• Let's be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Athlete

• As an athlete, you have to have that feeling that you can beat the odds, come back sooner than expected. Otherwise, the guys who are like, 'What's going to happen?', those guys it takes three months longer. It's better to have the reverse attitude.

  

  Gabe Kapler
  • Feeling
  • Beat
  • Odds

• A combine is a series of athletic tasks that help a coaching staff measure an athlete's ability to be competitive in a sport. A bobsled combine requires a sprint, broad jump, two-handed shot toss, and a back squat and power clean.

  

  Lauren Gibbs
  • Power
  • Help
  • Jump

• In wrestling, you've got to be an athlete. You can't just be a body builder; you can't just be this big strong guy who picks people up and throws them around. For longevity in the business, you got to keep your body fit and together.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Business
  • Wrestling
  • Builder

• 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

• If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Competition
  • Athlete

• Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Time
  • Father
  • Athlete

• I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • Star
  • Competition
  • Athlete

• I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.

  

  Christen Press
  • Focus
  • Football
  • Athlete

• I've found that there's a lot to invigorate in any country or destination - it's all about how you look at it. I've never really had any difficulties anywhere I've been. As an athlete, I used to enjoy being on the road and meeting people.

  

  Bob Beamon
  • People
  • Country
  • Road

• An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

  

  Emil Zatopek
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Hope

• When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.

  

  Ken Kercheval
  • Serious
  • Athlete

• I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Great
  • God
  • Used

• He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

  

  Plato
  • Action
  • Athlete
  • Savage

• A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.

  

  Y. C. James Yen
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Teacher

• You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Commitment

• There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete.

  

  Lolo Jones
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Sexy

• We know that as a Christian athlete, people are watching, and so we want to be the best example we can be and show that we are different - that Christ has changed our lives.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • People
  • Different
  • Christian

• I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Amazing
  • Proud
  • Stage

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