Top 1200 Best Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.

I'm really high on Josh Allen. He reminds me of Ben Roethlisberger. He's got the big arm. He's a very good athlete.

If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform.

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.

I've always tried to be a complete athlete and not limit myself to one position or one sport. It really helped mold my whole football game.

I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.

The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.

The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.

Whether you're a veteran like me or a high school athlete, the most important thing you can do is keep your body healthy.

I'm energized by this idea that's live television. In the same way as an athlete when they get on the field or on the court, you have to perform in that moment or it's past you and you've missed.

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.

What really excited me at the end was the challenge of being the best I can be and prolonging my best level and playing against the best players in the world. But now that I don't have the opportunity to play against the best players in the world when it counts, in front of fans, it doesn't excite me as much.

Dave Mackay was one of the best I've ever seen. Jimmy Greaves was the greatest goal scorer, and George Best was just the best. The greatest.

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his: I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

As an athlete living in a very competitive environment there are always times when you are questioned. It's up to you to prove people wrong and I really enjoy that.

Being able to compete against the best, having success against the best, and to be included with the best - that's something I really relished whenever I got on the court.

The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.

There's not an athlete in the world who doesn't deal with the same issues you and I have: frustrations with our family, dealing with tragedy or loss, or happiness and a child's birth.

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I'm an athlete; my dad had made sure I played all the same sports as boys growing up, so I was always super competitive.

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.

My success as a young athlete contributed to major disagreements between my parents and my mom had to make the ultimate decision to leave.

Retiring as the champion and being the only athlete to ever do that, I think goals like that are set in the mind. I want to make that happen.

You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug

I'm trying to build something that lasts forever. If it's tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I'm gone, it will have no momentum or can't keep selling.

Honestly, I got the best of both worlds: groove of New Orleans meets the intensity of Texas. That's the best education I could have, the best experiences I could have.

I really don't know what would have happened if my uncle hadn't taken me in. He took a hoodlum and turned him into a student-athlete from Milford.

As a professional athlete I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before.

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.

I think, as an athlete, you tend to be cautious of your body language and what you're doing on the ice. That might be the only moment someone sees you.

Every professional athlete has fear, doubts and negative thoughts. But people expect you to just ignore them and move forward.

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have any option. That was my way out.

Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

I feel like the best of the best in any sport not only plays well, but they get everyone around them to play really well, and the best they can.

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As a professional athlete, I have an incredible platform to inspire, impact, and deeply affect another human being. It sets my soul on fire.

I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.

Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.

I was always raised as a student first and an athlete second. I think that's the main purpose in college. Some athletes lose that perspective.

The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.

Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

Every time he steps on the floor, LeBron has to establish that he's the best. Every year is an opportunity for him to raise his level to the best of the best.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

I always set my ambitions very high. You want to be the greatest athlete, but I realized that life is not about that. I was a little bit blind.

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.

I was an athlete when I was younger and played a lot of sports, including golf, but I always ended up throwing around my clubs in frustration.

Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.

In my 20s, it was easy. In your 40s, it's a lot more challenging. You have to look at it like you're an actor, but you're also a professional athlete. You have to train.

Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.