Top 1200 Olympic Athlete Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, 'OK, I don't want to deal with these people ever again.' But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I've met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We've talked it out. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made mistakes as well. Who am I to hold a grudge?

What I find about Olympic games is there's so many fantastic stories, and the celebration of sport, and to be involved in that is the honor of our lifetime.

Do your best... really that's all you can ask for from an athlete.

I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.

I pinned Kurt Angle two weeks ago in that tag match...so...I think I've proven that I can hang with the Olympic Hero.

I don't run like any type of athlete.

I remember, with the third [Twilight] movie, when we went to Munich and the entire Olympic stadium was filled with fans. We walked in there and did nothing.

I'm an athlete, and I have been interested in sports films.

I was an athlete when I was young and devoted a lot of time to sports.

Everyone has been injured, regardless of whether they're an athlete or not.

I have been a professional dancer and athlete my entire life.

I am here to put out a positive athlete.

It truly takes a village to become a professional athlete.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

When you're successful, a professional athlete, you can help a lot of others.

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

No athlete works harder than Floyd Mayweather.

I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

I am a reality all-star. This is what I do. I'm not an actor or an athlete.

The Olympic Games is one of those moments that you remember forever, from the moment that you step foot in the country that you're competing in to the Closing Ceremony.

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

I was always more of an athlete. I like to compete.

I think that to be a competitive athlete, you have to be goal-oriented.

It is inhumane to put sole responsibility on one athlete.

I was the first athlete in the country to have a personal coach.

Making the Olympic team was the biggest thing I've ever accomplished. That was something I had to wait four years to accomplish.

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

I love all the attention I've got since becoming Olympic champion and being asked to go to different events, but boxing is what I do.

An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.

In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

Now if I go back home with an Olympic medal, the reaction of my family will give me immense satisfaction.

It's just in your nature when you're an athlete to be competitive in everything.

An Olympic medal in athletics is still a dream for India. Milkha Singh is the torchbearer for young athletes to achieve that goal.

To win like that, in Scottish kit, in the U.K., beating the Olympic champion, hearing Scotland the Brave on the podium, I was very emotional.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.

I'm an athlete, I'm funny, I'm creative, I can tell a story, I'm likable.

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

I'm a Christian who happens to be an athlete, not the other way around.

When I get the ball in my hands I'm a different type of athlete.

Being an athlete, my job was to physically perform.

I know what being a star athlete means.

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

My father is an athlete and I wish to be a hero like him.

To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.

Miesha is a great athlete, really tough. I know that.

I'm a sports fan. I'm not just an athlete who plays football.

Those Olympic lifters - how can you call someone the strongest man if he can't walk over to a car and pick it up?

My Olympic moment from the individual event was that I was really able to enjoy my skating, and so that meant a lot to me, and I didn't portray that accurately.

When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.

I don't drink. I don't kiss girls. These things do an athlete in.

One athlete I absolutely love is Melissa Stockwell.

As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

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