Top 1200 Good Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation.
The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'
If I really felt like I was the world's greatest athlete, I'd get 10 great events. But I know that's pretty much not possible. That's the toughness of the decathlon.
Boston has some of the best fans in any sport. They are very knowledgeable. They understand me. I was loved, embraced, and supported; what more can you ask for as an athlete?
Unlike the traditional athlete, I've got to do more than just engage in my sport to put food on the table. When I'm done running, it's straight to the office.
I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
Wilt Chamberlain, by far, is my best basketball player. Best athlete ever.
What does being an athlete mean? It means I have to be a little selfish again. I have to put my career sort of ahead of everything else - and I don't like doing that.
It takes about eight years to develop as an Olympic athlete, very few athletes actually who go there win medal in their first Games.
If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.
I was a big kid and a big athlete, but let's be honest: I don't know diddly about football.
It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.
I will be a complete man, a complete athlete, with a fight with Roy Jones Jr.
And at the end of the day as an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.
There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.
I think any professional athlete who says they stick to a strict diet and weigh their food out every time is either lying or they're sick.
I think CrossFit is highly beneficial to any athlete, in any sport.
If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.
Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
Here I am just trying to fund myself to play a sport, but the greater picture is that I'm a female athlete really pushing the envelope for women in sports.
The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine.
I don't care what anybody says: a pro athlete is going to be a role model. I tried to use that as a positive influence, to let kids know we are regular people.
Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with.
To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.
I like to think that when an athlete wears Armani, it makes him or her feel confident, and as we all know, confidence is fundamental to winning in any competition.
I'm not an athlete, and I'm not a gymnast, but I've always loved any type of sport and fitness, and I love running Tough Mudder or Spartan races and anything that's strength.
If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
As an athlete, the most important thing is the protein that you eat and the things that you put into your body. Without that, it's very hard to function throughout the day.
As a female athlete, I feel like I'm not allowed to be sexy and I'm not allowed to be that person.
Being a female athlete, sometimes your clothes don't fit right if you have a small waist and broad shoulders, or strong hips. And it's OK to embrace that.
In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.
I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great.
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
An athlete is responsible whatever she takes - be it food supplement or whatever.
Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.
Ask any athlete. One of his dreams is to play in New York wearing a Knicks uniform. It's also always been a dream of mine.
Reflecting back on my career, I was not a talented athlete at all. I had no competitiveness naturally, and was full of anxiety and panic all the time - something that's certainly not needed for shooting.
I know I have a big future in front of me, so that's my main focus. So when I'm outside of the ring, I try to carry myself as a professional athlete, not just anybody.
You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.
When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.
I guess I'm just not the film femme fatale type. I giggle too much. I have freckles and a turned-up nose, and I walk like an athlete.
I learned how to be an athlete. I learned the true art of resiliency and grit.
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.
A master's is a lot more work than my first degree, but I'm an athlete who knows what she wants. I made up my mind, and I'm determined that this is what I'm going to do.
I eat right, I train right, I've been an athlete my entire life.
It's hard to understand the athlete's lifestyle. You literally eat, sleep, train. You go to training camps in the winter where there is no Internet, you can't make phone calls.
There's mornings when my body aches or my mind is just not with it. But that's part of being an athlete and accomplishing a goal that seems unattainable. You have to find your motivation, what inspires you.
I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
