Athletes Quotes

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.