Athletes Quotes

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough.

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

I think there's going to be pressure on all the British athletes. It's a home Olympics at the end of the day. I like adrenaline, that's something I feed off. I'm just going to go out there and do my best.

Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.