Athlete Quotes

• I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

  

  Will McDonough
  • Thinking
  • Football
  • inspirational

• I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion.

  

  Arian Foster
  • Opinion
  • Athlete
  • Difference

• In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

  

  George Best
  • Athlete

• In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite human being, an athlete. The body must be used to determine its role in sport. 'My aim is to develop every individual according to his best potential, protect him from false ambition, the desire to be someone he never can be and, more important, never should be.'

  

  William Herbert Sheldon
  • People
  • Important
  • Desire

• I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Easy
  • Athlete
  • Stereotype

• I am an athlete, and I focus more on the issues that concern me: training, perform, eat, sleep.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Focus
  • Training
  • Perform

• Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest games in Baltimore had been when Johns Hopkins took on Susquehanna or Franklin & Marshall at homecoming.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Football
  • Athlete
  • Homecoming

• I kind of just lost track of laps. I couldn't hear a split. It was just so loud in here everyone was going nuts. I sort of felt like I was a little tired and I said, the people in front of me seem like they are falling off the lead pack a little bit. I should probably make a move. I hear ding, ding, ding, ding and I thought "oh crap! I've really got to go, I've got a lot left.

  

  Will Leer
  • People
  • Moving
  • Should

• I'm not angry. As an athlete ... you should be open to criticism, and you're allowed to be criticized, because not everybody has the same opinion, not everybody likes the same players. The rankings are quite volatile: Today you're 'great,' tomorrow you're 'not,' but then you're 'great' again. It makes for great stories. Now, I always look at the long term and by doing that, obviously, I can stay calm through the storm.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Long
  • Today
  • Player

• The power of imagination is incredible. Often we see athletes achieving unbelievable results and wonder how they did it. One of the tools they use is visualization or mental imagery… they made the choice to create their destinies and visualized their achievements before they ultimately succeeded.

  

  George Kohlrieser
  • Imagination
  • Wonder
  • Choices

• The value of the sport and the value of sports in general, with the life lessons, the ups and downs. The depth of the life experience, what athletes are actually offering to us when they come out and play, if you look at a season and go moment by moment.

  

  Willi Smith
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Lesson

• I'm impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Athlete

• Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Athlete

• My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Win
  • Mission
  • Nobel Prize

• If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Athlete
  • Gym
  • Google

• I've done whatever it takes to prove I am a clean athlete.

  

  Sun Yang
  • Athlete
  • Prove
  • Clean

• Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational.

  

  Evelyn Ashford
  • Trying
  • Realizing
  • Answers

• Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

  

  Mirai Nagasu
  • Good
  • Athlete
  • Pressure

• The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a program they want to play for, they should control it all.

  

  Billy Kennedy
  • Control
  • Play
  • Program

• No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Athlete

• Being vegan doesn't make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.

  

  Brendan Brazier
  • Athlete
  • Stronger
  • Vegan

• As an athlete, I know that I'm such a perfectionist that I'll want to go out and keep working on something over and over until it's perfect. Part of growing up is learning to take a step back.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Perfect

• Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Discipline
  • Athlete

• I like the challenge of getting players to rise to certain levels, but that's the easy part. The biggest challenge is to get them to believe in what we're doing. They have to understand that it's O.K. to have good days and bad days.

  

  Dawn Staley
  • Believe
  • Player
  • Challenges

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