Athlete Quotes

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.

It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

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

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.