Top 1200 Professional Athlete Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to be a professional athlete to be heard - the most powerful tool you have is your voice.

I don't know about politics so much. I'm a professional athlete.

My dream was always to be a professional athlete.

There's three things that as a professional athlete you want. You want to get to the big leagues, and I accomplished that. Winning a World Series ring, I got that. And then getting to the Hall of Fame. That's everybody's dream. Every athlete, they want to be up there in the Hall of Fame, mentioned with the greatest players to ever play this game.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.

Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

I was a very good athlete: actually professional in the sport of handball.

Like AEW, it kind of feels like they're treating you like a professional athlete, and Lucha Underground is like a lot of TV production stuff. It felt like they treated you like a professional actor. The treatment was just above that for a wrestler.

I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.

With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I don't mind being a professional. As an athlete you are a role model, people are watching what you wear, listening to everything you say.

The reason why I'm so shredded at 135 is because I'm a professional athlete. I do everything the correct way.

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.

That's sometimes the hardest thing to do as a professional athlete, because when you get lit up, you wear it, especially as a starting pitcher.

I've always dreamed of being a professional athlete.

I had a fantastic career. I loved being a professional athlete.

I grew up with sports, but I was definitely not good enough to become a professional athlete - I just loved the storytelling aspect of it.

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

I wanted to be a professional athlete. Young men and women from Montana don't make it to the professional level that often. And I always believed that because I was a great football player that made me better than you. And that's not the case at all.

I've never had to make weight for any sport before. Because, get this, I was not allowed to do any sports in school because I was a professional athlete. I was doing wrestling at the age of 15, so the school districts and the board of directors said that because I was a professional athlete that I couldn't do anything.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

As a professional athlete, the onus is on you to take responsibility.

It's an amazing life, don't get me wrong. But being a professional athlete, is... is not as glamorous as everybody sets it out to be.

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

It truly takes a village to become a professional athlete.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

To be a professional golfer in the 21st century, you must be an athlete.

I have been a professional dancer and athlete my entire life.

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.

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

I don't think anybody in any sport ever sucks. You're an athlete. You're a professional.

Madonna is an athlete; she has to be treated like a professional athlete. She doesn't work out for six hours a day, though, like some of the press says. She never works out for more than two hours a day, and then only when she has the time.

I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.

I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to the good stuff.

As a professional athlete, whether it's traveling or being in a hotel room, you gotta let your time go somewhere.

Johnny was an athlete who didn't play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn't think he had it in him to be a professional.

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school and saying I wanted to be a professional athlete and the teacher replying, 'You're not going to make it; it's not possible.'

Being a professional athlete, people respect the fact that I respect eSports professional gamers.

When you're successful, a professional athlete, you can help a lot of others.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

I'm a professional athlete, I'm a businesswoman and I know who I am.

After any game you're going to get the love, the hate: That's just what comes with being a professional athlete.

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

I consider myself an athlete. I train like an athlete, I eat like an athlete, I recover and get sore just like any other athlete.

Being a professional athlete, we all want to win the title.

As a professional athlete you have to be technical with what you eat. You have to make sure your intakes are on point every day.

It's either join the workforce or become a professional athlete, and I'd rather be a pro athlete.

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

It is an honor and privilege to be able to be in a position to utilize my platform as a professional athlete to support the lives of others.

I'm an athlete and a professional, I like challenges and this is my driving force.

As a professional athlete, part of my job is to make sure I'm consuming high quality nutrients.