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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I think it's come to a point in society where brands are changing and they like people and public figures and athletes who have something to say and take a stance on issues.
Obviously, the competition at an Olympics, the emotions are running high, and the stakes are higher for these athletes, so it does bring an incredible, palpable excitement and emotion into the building.
'Suena' is what the essence of the Olympics are about. There are the best athletes in the world up on one stage. The love and admiration and respect for each other is amazing to see.
Considering the relatively brief careers of professional athletes, teenagers who are good enough to play at the highest level should be able to exploit that market.
I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
I was a torch carrier in the 2012 Paralympics and every time I thought 'I can't do this' I would look at the blade runners and the athletes and wheelchairs think, okay, I can run.
What keeps athletes going is the optimism we are going to be able to compete again.
As athletes, we want to represent our country to the best of our ability.
Under Armour's success depends in part on endorsements from celebrity athletes, many of whom - like Stephen Curry, the basketball star - are African-American.
It's important to remember that because these athletes exercise so beyond what even a normal active person would, they generally must also supplement their diet.
When a country doesn't respect Black lives, maybe it doesn't deserve to be entertained by Black athletes.
I grew up with a lot of talented athletes through high school, through college.
The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.
When I first began competing, brands were quite hesitant to feature disabled athletes in advertisements, perhaps due to a fear of offending consumers.
I think hydration is an important topic. Drinking plenty of fluids is especially important for athletes.
I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
Some college athletes don't want to turn pro, they don't want to take the cut in pay.
Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.
For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.
The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.
Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.
You always want to make sure that your work can touch as many people as possible. Whether it's young guys, young girls, you never know where it's going.
Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.
The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best.
My dream is to see athletes also getting the same recognition, fame, success and money as cricketers, footballers and hockey players get in India.
Skating in itself is a difficult sport, and the amazing athletes within the sport are very challenging.
I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.
It takes about eight years to develop as an Olympic athlete, very few athletes actually who go there win medal in their first Games.
We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.
I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.
The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play.
All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.
Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!
These athletes can be considered the gods in certain ways and the fans can be considered parishioners.
I wanted to write a book specifically aimed toward young people. I wanted to write a book that anybody can read and enjoy, but I did want to aim it at young people and, even more specifically, urban young people.
All you've ever seen in the UFC was the greatest athletes in the world. Never, ever did we do a freakshow and we won't.
We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.
As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.
I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.
Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom
In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.
Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.
My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.
The way I play - I'm the guy moving, coming off screens, getting up and down the floor. I should be one of the better-conditioned athletes out there.
I've been around enough athletes to know when someone is working, someone's not.
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
We start to decline as humans and, particularly, as athletes right around 25 years old. If you're real lucky, you might push that to 27 or 28.
I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.
As athletes, you always know that mistakes happen, and not everyone is perfect, and you can't be perfect.
Youth is wasted on the young. And it doesn't even matter if you sit a young person down and tell them, 'You're so healthy, take advantage of it before it's gone!' They still can't hear it.
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.
Sports not only build better athletes but also better people.
