Top 1200 Greatest Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.

We are indeed a nation of immigrants. People who choose to come to America have always been one of our greatest sources of national vitality. They keep our economy strong and our communities dynamic. They are some of our greatest patriots.

The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

You can't bullet-point Trump's political beliefs because he doesn't have them. He's got various things he wants, needs, wants to accomplish, based on circumstances at the moment, not based on a philosophy. Now, there's a foundation. The foundation for Donald Trump is "Make America Great Again." It's the greatest place on earth and we're gonna build it back up and it's gonna be the greatest no matter what, compared to whoever, it's gonna be the greatest. So, I mean, you can say that. But that's not a political philosophy. That's an objective or a series of goals.

I'm 34 years old, but I still feel like I'm progressing as an athlete.

At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

It's important as an athlete to know your body and how things affect it.

Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

I'm lucky I've been able to take control, as an older athlete, and pick who I work with.

Ryan Giggs just had an athlete's physique. He could run all day.

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.

You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

To graduate in four years as a student-athlete with no summer school is quite a feat.

'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

Serena's arguably the best athlete of all time, so getting to know her was surreal.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

I'm an athlete. I'm a performer. Why the hell did I never think of combining the two?

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

I want to have a bank account that represents me being a pro athlete.

I never in a million years thought I would be able to be a Paralympic athlete.

I've always been an outgoing guy. But I know as an athlete, I have an obligation to be a role model.

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.

As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

If I wasn't a pro-athlete, I would probably eat any dessert dish every day!

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up.

Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma.

I'd love to work with Charlotte Flair; she's the best athlete in our company.

I'm definitely Australian and wouldn't have it any other way. I've been formed as an athlete in Australia.

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

Rose is a very versatile athlete, she works her striking well.

If you say an athlete doesn't need supplementation, that he can get everything through food, you're wrong.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

I was an athlete in college - a quarterback, a leader - so people telling me what to do doesn't work.

He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.

I don't want to be an athlete so much. I groove more with artists and deep thinkers.

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.

Obviously, diet is important for an athlete, but I don't have anyone telling me, 'You can eat this, but don't try that.'

For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.

No athlete entered 2012 with more and left it with less than Lance Armstrong.

One of the scariest things for any athlete, I think, is pretty much the off season.

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say.

Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.

Life is awesome as a college athlete, and then it's a total cliff to jump off.