Athlete Quotes

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

  

  Jon Jones
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Athlete

• 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

• I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Great
  • Athlete
  • Say

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

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Professional
  • Athlete
  • Go

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Patrick might be the best pure athlete on the team. In the fall he was the starting third guy on defense. He is so athletic we can put him anywhere we need to.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Team
  • Athlete
  • Patrick

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

  

  Bobby Cannavale
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Athlete

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

  

  Marion Jones
  • Opinion
  • Athlete

• 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

• I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Time
  • Good
  • Money

• 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

• I disagree that an athlete can't be intelligent. Some people think that, in basketball, we have a bunch of masculine adults who don't know how to control themselves. They're feeble-minded and can't engage or articulate ideas. That's a narrative they keep trying to paint.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • People
  • Trying
  • Control

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

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Belief
  • Athlete
  • Competitor

• I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.

  

  Khalid
  • American
  • Athlete

• 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.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Mind
  • Active
  • Crosses

• It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

  

  Jim Courier
  • 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 was an athlete when I was growing up.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Athlete

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