Top 1200 Great Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.

I am an entertainer and I am an athlete, and WWE is the biggest performance-based show in the world.

Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.

Having your competitiveness and your desire as an athlete called into question is, for sure, frustrating.

I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.

I always said this as an athlete, 'Practice like you're the worst player on the field. Play like you're the best.'

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.

One thing about me is that my parents didn't force me to be an athlete.

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.

As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.

As an athlete, I'm always thinking about habits and goals and how to achieve the things I want to achieve.

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

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.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

I'm an athlete. I'm not a big golf nerd in that aspect. I'm not big on the history.

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.

There are many roles of a coach. You will be the parent and will take responsibility over the athlete.

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.

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.

The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

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.

Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.

An athlete is responsible whatever she takes - be it food supplement or whatever.

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.

A true champion and athlete is never satisfied with their performance. You can always do more and always improve.

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

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.

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

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.

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'm just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

In 'Law and Order,' that wasn't a real stretch; I had to play an athlete and I had like four lines.

I have decided, and am truly excited to announce, that I will be turning pro. I believe that, in the long run, this is the best way for me continue to develop as an athlete.

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world.

You never realize as an athlete there's going to be an end until the end comes.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.

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.

I am an athlete first and foremost, and it is vital for my competitiveness, my well being, and for my preparations for events during the European summer that I measure my performance against other athletes.

I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live.

Much respect to Daniel Cormier, he's a hell of an athlete and hell of a champion.

I think CrossFit is highly beneficial to any athlete, in any sport.

Any time, as an athlete, you taste victory, you taste the top of the mountain, you want to get there again.

I'm not just a footballer; I'm a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

Sometimes the fighter or an athlete feels they're valued a certain price, and sometimes we don't feel that way.

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

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.

Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.

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.

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

I learned how to be an athlete. I learned the true art of resiliency and grit.

Yeah, I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

I'm an athlete, but I'm not a runner. I'm 5-foot-8 and stocky - not exactly a runner's type.