Top 1200 Elite Athletes Quotes & Sayings - Page 13
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Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Championships are not won on the night of a big event, but years before by athletes who commit themselves daily to championship principles
The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.
As female athletes all over the world have discovered the hard way, changing cultures and mindsets takes action.
In track and field, Nike is all-powerful. They control the top coaches, athletes, races, even the governing body.
We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.
When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000?
The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived.
Canelo wants to test himself and see if he is among the elite fighters. This is a golden opportunity for me, so I'm very, very happy.
Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.
When I began running at the age of 10, I didn't have the diet athletes need. It was just rice and vegetables. Every day.
Whether you're working on becoming a more patient parent or you're striving to become an elite athlete, building mental strength will help you reach your goals.
I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.
They are always open to come to South Korea and play, because we never reject North Korean athletes.
Anything I've asked of MGM Grand, they've done for me in a heartbeat. They're all about making entertainers and athletes happy.
I have trained so so hard to be where I am at - I train with Olympic athletes and if I'm struggling to get to the top then there is something wrong.
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
Personally, I love athletes on Twitter. I think it gives them an opportunity to engage and show some of their personality.
By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.
This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.
Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.
If you're a talented player, and you're 20 years old, you should be playing in the UEFA Champions League or in the elite European teams like AC Milan, Juventus, or Chelsea.
It cannot be Pakistan of Quaid and Iqbal where children of the elite study in prestigious educational institutions while those of resourceless segments deprived of education due to difficulties.
It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.
Just imagine if women's sport was on the TV all the time - how many more female athletes we would have?
I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.
We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.
I tell my students that the single most powerful thing that we have in this country - something that literally harbors no dissent and no questioning - is the all-powerful elite narrative.
We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.
As a coach, I am committed to not only developing well-rounded athletes but also good human beings.
I've learned a lot about guys through Twitter and I'm for any channel that allows athletes to express themselves openly.
I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.
We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.
Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.
I remember being a little kid walking down the grocery aisle seeing athletes on these cereal boxes.
I'd never contemplated being in TV and film. But I love working with athletes and talent and shaping great stories.
When you are an elite talent, you cannot allow anyone that comes into your 'eliteness' and take you down. You have to make them rise to your level.
That's what it's all about in MMA, we're not the highest paid athletes in the world, so when you can get the big money fights you have to take them.
An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.
The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values.
I'm sorry, but I stand by my decision. I am now a member of the elite club of people that have fought a professional team mascot. You sir, are not in that club.
The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matter at Holyrood - constitute an elite. They are representatives who are elected and who are at the service of voters who can fire them.
Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth.
There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.
Turning cash flows from contracts of professional athletes into securities is now possible through the power of blockchain.
I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.
There was a lot of pride, being one of the elite fighters in the world, in the best promotion in the world. That's what I was proud of. To be called a UFC fighter, that was important.
Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.
Some coaches are not educated at the elite level in health and nutrition. They're not educated in how the body works from anatomy and physiology perspectives.
I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.
My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.
Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.
Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.
I would still consider myself in the elite group of managers. If it was me against someone else, I'd trust myself.
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.
Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.
It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.
I'm going to prove the haters and doubters wrong. I like when the doubters try to say that I'm (not still) elite or that I'm too old. I'll use that.
