Top 1200 Best Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.

Brock Lesnar is the most unique athlete in this history of World Wrestling Entertainment, and I say that with without embellishment or exaggeration.

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.

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'm a professional athlete - one who's supposed to set examples - so whatever it is I put in my body, it's up to me to take responsibility for it, and I have done that.

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

My plant-based diet has opened up more doors to being an athlete. It's a whole other level that I'm elevating to.

It is interesting that I have gone through the process of representing clients as an ex-athlete. I am certainly not naive to think that the possibility of corruption isn't there.

It's not just about women's cricket, but everywhere, every athlete's momentum has been broken because of Covid-19.

What makes the best the best is they never actually think they're the best.

For every athlete, Olympics is the target, but mine is a little different. I am focusing on improving my timing; that's what I think about.

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

People say I wasn't a real athlete, but I trained hard. It's possible to take something seriously and still have fun at it, you know.

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.

I have some cool talents. I'm really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I'm a big athlete and especially love soccer.

Hydration is a key thing, as an athlete yes, but also for your skin, and I do notice the biggest difference when I stay hydrated.

Everyone needs to move - if you're a pro athlete, a contortionist, a computer programmer, or just somebody who wants to play with their kids.

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.

You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me do their best dialogue writing off story - the best lines, the best observations - but they haven't got enough to do with the plot to stay in.

You can win with the best product, the best price, or the best experience.

With the ball I can run 37kmh but I've never been timed without it because my job is to play football. I'm not an athlete.

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.

Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.

Do I midnight snack? Not a lot, but sometimes. And it's usually Doritos Cooler Ranch. I know that's terrible, especially for a pro athlete, but they're just so good.

As a football player, as an athlete, as a competitor - that dream of being able to play in the Super Bowl, you're never going to let that one go.

Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.

When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

As an athlete, there is no bigger compliment in my mind you can pay a guy when you say he can get the job done despite the obstacles he'll face.

I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

I've been an athlete most of my life and on a disciplined schedule. Working out for me is just part of my every day.

The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.

I'm a successful professional athlete, and whatever I'm going through in my private life would never impact my performance on court.

I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.

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.

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

Any athlete can preach to this, that when things aren't going well, you tend to bring it home, and the people that take the brunt of it is the family.

My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.

As an athlete, when you have a desire and a want to do something, you fight for it. And it doesn't matter how long your journey is; it's whether you give up or don't.

It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides

I'm a huge fan of Conor McGregor, an incredible athlete. What he has done for MMA is phenomenal; he has been a great supporter of me.

Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not only motivating but inspiring.

Athletes make nothing like the money that footballers or even cricketers earn. If you are a female athlete you are at the bottom of the ladder.

My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.

Man United, for all the doom and gloom, they're still the best club on the planet, they've got the best supporters and the best manager... United will always be United. To me, they are still the best and whatever disappointments they're having at the moment, don't worry, they'll bounce back. They always do.

Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.

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.

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.