Top 1200 Greatest Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I think the greatest truths, the ones that you find in every culture that has any sort of history of reflection of writing, the greatest truth is that there's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. That's the way Shakespeare put it. But you get basically the same idea from Buddha, from the Bhagavad Gita in India, and from the Stoics in ancient Greece and Rome.

I just wanted to give myself a chance to be an athlete because I really loved the game of basketball.

I'm excited to work with SCARPA because it's opened up a whole new playground to me as an athlete.

Being a minority athlete in this sport, it's been wrought with challenges, but I wouldn't consider myself a trail blazer.

If a person, an athlete is not versed in something, their first reaction when there is a bad situation is not a good feeling. It's panic.

It's humbling how my peers view me as not only one of the best Olympic power and weightlifters, but as an athlete.

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Obviously, that's the thing any athlete wants to be able to do, to take weaknesses and turn them into strengths.

I want to be the greatest player who has ever been at my position, the greatest player who has ever played.

Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.

Adam and Eve - and especially Eve - are victims of the greatest character assassination the world has ever known. Eve is not secondary. Eve, if anything, is the great initiator in the story. She's the first independent woman. For me, rediscovering that Eve was the greatest bad**s women of all time was a revelation.

I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion.

We've got the greatest Premier League, greatest domestic competition in the world but the downside of that is we've got fewer and fewer English players playing in that league.

What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.

One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

It's an amazing life, don't get me wrong. But being a professional athlete, is... is not as glamorous as everybody sets it out to be.

Track and field is definitely a science and each year as an athlete you try to develop and become stronger.

My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.

I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.

I don't want to say that when you're an athlete, you take things for granted, but you do. We're supposed to go out and think we're invincible. We're not.

I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.

A medal in Tokyo Olympics is my target, it's the ultimate for an athlete. I am still young and my best is yet to come.

I was shocked after hearing the news of Milkha Singh's death. He was a great athlete... an inspiring personality.

Obviously, Gaga's one of the greatest music visionaries of our time, and Beyonce is one of the greatest visions of our time. She is a music visionary, too.

I'm an athlete. Anything that involves running or jumping I've always been excited about, so basketball was exciting.

Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.

What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.

It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.

Your greatest strength can be your greatest weakness.

One of the most important aspects of an athlete's financial life is that he needs to be personally responsible for his own finances.

Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

I think as an athlete, especially in a sport like athletics, we don't wear very much on the track, so you have to look the part.

I guess every athlete has in the back of his mind being good at a sport and making it big.

If you are alive and healty, you must know that this is your greatest success and your greatest chance in life! Celebrate this success with all your heart, with all your gratitude!

I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys.

I've been an athlete and competitor my whole life, and there's nothing more that I get off on than competition.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.

Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.

You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters.

The conditioning and the lifestyle changes you have to make to remain a healthy athlete are what molded me into what I am today.

For me, the Mount Rushmore of greats would be Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Hulk Hogan, Bruno Sammartino or Lou Thesz. You can do either one of them in that fourth spot. But I think Ric Flair is the greatest of all time. He's the greatest I've ever seen... on the mic and in the ring.