Athlete Quotes

• I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Belief
  • Athlete
  • Competitor

• As an athlete, the most important thing is the protein that you eat and the things that you put into your body. Without that, it's very hard to function throughout the day.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Important
  • Athlete

• The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Different
  • Discipline
  • First

• If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Government
  • Proud
  • Sports

• I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Professional
  • Athlete
  • Go

• I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Winter

• When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every athlete, so it just feel like it's a little bit of a missed opportunity - but I'm only 23. I have just got to get on now and keep going.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Athlete

• In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.

  

  Marion Jones
  • Opinion
  • Athlete

• I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

  

  Chris Cleave
  • Life
  • Athlete

• The problem with being married to an athlete who is, like, 19 feet tall and can just eat, like, 17 burgers at 11 o'clock at night is, you're like, 'I'll have just three of those burgers,' and you think you're being good because he had 19 and you had three!

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Night
  • Problem

• Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • World
  • Country
  • Why

• When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • World
  • Live
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Kimberly Elise
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Athlete

• I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

  

  Dominique Dawes
  • Believe
  • Athlete

• Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Different
  • Hurt
  • Body

• My character is just an extension of me. The in-ring work, the things that will always be said about me: Big, overbearing, powerful, in-your-face, couldn't wrestle - I never needed to wrestle. Why did I need to learn how to wrestle? Did Hulk Hogan need to learn how to wrestle? Nope. Is Hulk Hogan a good athlete? Nope.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• People also think Christians are very passive people, and that drives me crazy as an athlete because if you watch me play and compete, I'm the furthest thing from passive that you'll see on the baseball field. I love to compete, and I love to win.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Baseball

• When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • Different
  • Best

• Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Athlete

• You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Kind
  • Failure
  • Athlete

• An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Different
  • Night
  • Day

• I was an athlete when I was growing up.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Athlete

• My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had.

  

  Marv Levy
  • World
  • Great
  • She

• I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Good
  • Great
  • Feeling

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