Top 1200 Best Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
The life of a boxing athlete is short, so I don't have time to waste or time to take tune-up fights or whatever.
Even Sachin used to get ducks during his career. There are ups and downs in every athlete's career.
Have you seen any African American athlete that appeals to the urban market actually bring that market to the MMA?
The simplest, most impactful question that you can ask an athlete, or ask anyone, is 'What do you want to accomplish? What's your goal?'
It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong.
I know as an athlete I want to use the platform for good and make a difference in a positive way. I think I can do that, and I want to do that.
My mindset as an athlete and as a man is to accept what God is asking me to do and to live my life expressing God's word.
Strength training is an important part of every athlete's training program, but for me it's become almost like a sanctuary.
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a cameo.
When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie?
Whatever that day has given, you have to make it the best of the best. That's one thing I've learned over my years. On days when you can't make everything what you want, do what you do best, make it as positive as possible, and go from there. Learn from your mistakes.
I train my entire body to be strong. To be a professional athlete, we need every part to be strong - the core, the legs, arms.
Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.
Before being an athlete, I'm a person, a human being, like the ones Open Arms are saving every day.
To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.
I want to see Ronda coming back, her finishing her career with a win. Every athlete deserves that.
As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.
I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.
All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.
Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete.
I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.
My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
In high school, I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, badminton - two sports every season - and I was named female athlete of the year twice.
I've always wanted to be an athlete, I loved sport and PE in school and always watched the Olympic Games on TV.
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Everything in moderation is what I always try to tell myself. But whether you're an athlete or not, its always important to eat healthy.
I'm so proud of my body. I'm so proud to be an athlete. I wouldn't change anything.
I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.
Nick Aldis is a great champion. He looks like a professional athlete. He dresses like one. He carries it well.
As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
You have to be an athlete. A sense of timing is vital. So is dedication. Being a stuntman calls for qualities usually associated with being a dancer.
I'm training at Alliance because they encourage me, and they motivate me, and they try to build on my uniqueness as a fighter, as an athlete.
I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.
If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.
I'm 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.
Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.
If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.
The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.
I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
I've just remained open to growing. What I mean by that is, when you're an older athlete you can become set in your ways. Each year I try to break a bad habit.
A female professional athlete has to have the whole package, as opposed to a guy who can just be good at sport. You have to have a job or go to uni or do three sports instead of one, you have to be a standout.
Competitiveness drives my blood. I'm an athlete at heart and I just love the competition. I can't live without it. It's just a rush.
First and foremost I am an American athlete and I am proud to live in a country that encourages diversity, openness and tolerance.
Just having what's important, to have people around you to support and take care of you. That's the most important thing when you are a professional athlete.
We're not in the business of making doorknobs. We're in the business of people. There are things you have to do these days as a coach and as a teacher to deal with the modern athlete.
I'm not an athlete dater, really. I would get too jealous. They're really gone all the time. Different hotel rooms.
Rather than just saying, like, 'Your economy is the be all and end all,' I go back to my three roots that I've often said about this being best country for business, the best to raise a family in, and the best to grow old in with a sense of dignity and respect.
I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.
First of all I'm not a fan of Twitter. Nothing against their program or what they have, but as an athlete I think you need to get off of Twitter.
I knew that if I was going to be a model, that it was going to be in the body type that I am. As an athlete, as a woman with hips and thighs and curves, that was me.
Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."
It was so fun, 2006, 2007, 2008. I went into the gym and I felt like I was winning in the gym, which is important for an athlete.
I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.
When you get off five or six months, and you're not competing as an athlete, you want to get back out on the field.
Joanna is a great athlete, has good grappling, good striking, a lot of cardio, but her punching power is weak.
