Top 1200 Greatest Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

I'm not your average athlete. I'm good at other things. I'm not just a basketball player. I'm multi-talented.

I would rank George Washington as America's greatest president, but he only had to defeat what was then the world's greatest military power with a ragtag group of irregulars and some squirrel guns, whereas Ronald Reagan had to defeat liberals.

I know that if I'm going to take myself to where I want to go as an athlete and a person, I have to look at all my training options.

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it.

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

After any game you're going to get the love, the hate: That's just what comes with being a professional athlete.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

Chefs hate desserts. The smartest thing a chef can do is hire a great pastry chef. Cooking savory food is all about feel - you season something, you taste it, you go back in and adjust, more butter, more olive oil, more acid, whatever you want to get it to taste the way you want. Pastries are like a science project. To me, the greatest chefs are the ones who have the greatest feel for food, while the greatest pastry chefs have to be people that are extremely precise.

My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

Boston is an unbelievable city, and for any athlete looking to become involved in the community, this is the perfect place.

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.

The things that I rely on, USADA doesn't have a problem with them. I'm gonna continue to be the same athlete that I've always been.

Gina Carano is a great athlete, and I'd be happy if she returns to MMA - doesn't matter if it's against Ronda.

Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the greatest city because the fans will stick to a loser season after season. I have had my share of defeats, so I should know.

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest number was number one. That was himself. That may sound like a little bit of selfishness, but if that is selfishness, at least it is a very intelligent selfishness. Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

As a professional athlete you have to be technical with what you eat. You have to make sure your intakes are on point every day.

I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

I wouldn't take any of my injuries back; I feel like I'm stronger as an athlete because of all those setbacks.

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour.

The greatest wealth of this nation is not only the mergers of giant corporations or the possibility of further globalization of the infrastructure of the world. In the United States, our greatest single source of wealth is the minds and talent of our young people. Not to use it is stupid - to waste it is a crime.

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

It is an honor and privilege to be able to be in a position to utilize my platform as a professional athlete to support the lives of others.

I would not change my career to be a pro athlete. A team could trade me and my band cannot!

I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

I'm still an athlete at heart, so I always want that comfort and something that feels like an athletic shoe.

I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

Any recognition by the government for your performance and achievements always boosts the confidence of an athlete.

I always say that I'm a clean athlete and that I should be randomly tested anytime, urine and blood.

Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!

It's not every day you are able to sign a top-10 athlete, let alone two in the same week.

As a football player, as an athlete, as a competitor, that dream of playing the Super Bowl... I was never going to lose that.

You might be an elite-level athlete in the room, but if no one gets to see you display your craft it doesn't matter.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

I'm an athlete - my legs were everything. I had no idea what my life would be like without them.

There's definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

The holidays are important, but the path I've chosen doesn't take that into consideration. I do what I can to enjoy them, but it's one of the sacrifices of being an athlete.

The ultimate dream of an athlete is to compete in the Olympics. For us athletes, that is the zenith. There is nothing beyond that.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

Louie is hugely talented. But I get very annoyed at the way the media... say, 'Louis C.K. is the greatest stand-up in the world.' He's not the greatest stand-up in the world. He's not funnier than Dave Attell.

I am an athlete, and I focus more on the issues that concern me: training, perform, eat, sleep.