Top 1200 Good Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.
In 'Law and Order,' that wasn't a real stretch; I had to play an athlete and I had like four lines.
Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits
The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.
The biggest learning is that an athlete needs to know when to stop. To know that if I push beyond this, there could be a problem.
I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live.
I always said this as an athlete, 'Practice like you're the worst player on the field. Play like you're the best.'
Sometimes the fighter or an athlete feels they're valued a certain price, and sometimes we don't feel that way.
I'm not just a footballer; I'm a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.
I'm an athlete. I'm not a big golf nerd in that aspect. I'm not big on the history.
As I grew older and the dance became more competitive and more disciplined, that's when I started to realize that I'm an athlete.
I'm not your cookie-cutter athlete, and that scares people. People don't know how to take that.
Bam Bam Bigelow was an amazing athlete for his size.
I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.
When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
I'm an athlete, but I'm not a runner. I'm 5-foot-8 and stocky - not exactly a runner's type.
One thing about me is that my parents didn't force me to be an athlete.
If you want to run for president, you better be an athlete. It's 24/7. It never ends. You give up your personal life completely and you have something of a chance to be shot.
Having your competitiveness and your desire as an athlete called into question is, for sure, frustrating.
Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.
I've become more of a climber now - who still keeps that time trial as strong as ever. It gives me such self-belief. I feel a different athlete.
A true champion and athlete is never satisfied with their performance. You can always do more and always improve.
The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.
Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.
I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.
I'm just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.
There are many roles of a coach. You will be the parent and will take responsibility over the athlete.
I am an entertainer and I am an athlete, and WWE is the biggest performance-based show in the world.
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
This is our job to play tennis, and be here to focus. And when you're an athlete, we say it's normal that your job is 24/7.
When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.
I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
Any time, as an athlete, you taste victory, you taste the top of the mountain, you want to get there again.
You already have everything you need to be a long-distance athlete. It's mindset, not miles, that separates those who do from those who dream.
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.
Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.
I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.
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.
Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
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.
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.
I always looked like an athlete but I didn't look like Charles Atlas.
Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.
As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.
I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.
Yeah, I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!
My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.
As an athlete, I'm always thinking about habits and goals and how to achieve the things I want to achieve.
The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world.
I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.
Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.
Much respect to Daniel Cormier, he's a hell of an athlete and hell of a champion.
I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.
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 is difficult, but you need to be honest with yourself as an athlete, and have a team telling you the right things, being honest with you.
You never realize as an athlete there's going to be an end until the end comes.