Top 1200 Greatest Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

We do not question an athlete who is disciplined in order to achieve their goals, and yet as parents the same premise is not applied.

Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what I wanted.

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

It's about being a student-athlete, and not just getting that easy money and going to the league.

I just feel proud when they say in 'Forbes' magazine that the highest-paid athlete is a fighter.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

I found it tough to follow an athlete's lifestyle. But soon, it became a part of my life, and I embraced it.

To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are. That's the greatest act of love because you wash away imperfections.

Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.

I'm an athlete. I play basketball and football and all that with a bunch of other men, but that doesn't impact me emotionally.

It's 2018, and being an openly gay man and an athlete, that is part of the face of America now.

Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability

As a professional athlete, part of my job is to make sure I'm consuming high quality nutrients.

Anybody who wants to compare Pele to any other athlete... do you know what I do? I hear but I don't listen.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

As an athlete, the body can fail you. I know. The mind and your education will be there to keep carrying you.

I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.

As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.

I'm a collegiate All-American athlete and earned a master's degree in education from Florida State University.

Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

I have done 'Sports Illustrated,' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.

With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.

I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human being, practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit.

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put onscreen - or stage, for that matter. I, frankly, like Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' very much, too. I grew up with that... I loved it. I loved the score; I loved the acting.

We never want anything bad to happen, especially to an athlete like Jon Jones.

If you don't eat properly, it affects your energy level. You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

Run towards your fears. Embrace them. On the other side of your greatest fears lives your greatest life.

I'm not a great athlete that can play any sport. But one thing I could always do is... fight back.

I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.

I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.

My mindset has changed to think about what I can eat to become a better athlete, not just a bigger one.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.

As an athlete, as a competitor, any person would tell you they're the best. I truly believe that in myself.

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

I'm not an educated woman. What am I gonna do for the rest of my life? I'm an athlete... And now I have absolutely nothing.

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

I try to pay it forward. I do a lot of philanthropic and charity work. Some of my greatest awards, greatest rewards, have not been for comic work but for charity work.

America's a great country - you better believe it's a great country, one of the greatest on this planet - but even the greatest needs to pay attention. I wish the powerful sources that run this country could understand that.

I'm an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don't get or ever got the respect from people.

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

For every athlete, the roar of the crowd goes away, and we have to learn how to turn the page.

Your greatest adversary is also your greatest teacher. Like it or not, it is the job of certain people to bring out the worst in you. What they trigger is already in you. They are here to reveal the sore, tender wounded places in your heart and mind, and they are providing you with a wonderful and divine opportunity for healing.

When I was an athlete I never listened to music because I was constantly so engaged with my own self and body.

Once we take care of wellbeing of an athlete then performance will automatically come.

An athlete must have a sound and trained body, and only after, indulge in sport he prefers.

You know Rockhold is a very good athlete and great fighter. He is a champion in Strikeforce, in UFC.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

The reason why I'm so shredded at 135 is because I'm a professional athlete. I do everything the correct way.