Athlete Quotes
-
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
-
That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
-
Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.
-
My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
-
I trained with Olympics Athlete Jeanette Kwakye - who is amazing! And Shani Anderson, who is an excellent Olympic runner. We trained five times a week; running, circuits, weights, working out in the gym, and on the track. It was an insane time.
-
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
-
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
-
I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.
-
Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
-
I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.
-
Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.
-
Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.
-
My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
-
I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn't go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn't do that.
-
The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
-
My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
-
I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.
-
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
-
I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.'
-
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
-
I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
-
Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
-
Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.
