Top 1200 Young Athletes Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

In soccer, female athletes across the world wear shoes that are not meant for us, our feet, or our game.

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

I think most athletes want to be told when they make a mistake. They don't want to be coddled. They can deal with criticism, especially when it's valid.

I want young people to ask me if I'm serious. Our young people have been lied to and misled for so long. When I stand on this soapbox, I want young people to ask me that because once they know I'm serious, they'll be willing to ride with me.

We are who we are. People who are older have the advantage of more experience. But you don't have to despair just because you're young. If young age is the problem, you can take comfort in the fact that it gets better with each passing day.

I watched the London Games as my coach had athletes in there. I saw the impact that the Paralympics had on the country and the world.

It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.

I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models.

I really enjoyed playing rugby. I loved the camaraderie with the other athletes. It was kind of like fighting. Team fighting.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

I converted from softball. We've got volleyball, we've got track and field. Athletes come from anywhere and then convert into bobsled.

I think we have a great opportunity as fighters and athletes to be good role models. I'm by no means perfect, but I think we can try.

What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.

Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.

Amazingly, I think that a lot of times athletes are - are kind of in a position where other think they shouldn't weigh in on certain social topics.

The literary scene is filled with young people now, which is a great joy. They seem fully capable of saving the world, as we failed to do when young, though heaven knows we tried.

In Beijing when the Chinese athletes had a massive roar that gave me a buzz pretending they were shouting for me.

I was that little kid: I was the one that was looking up to athletes and getting to see them and getting to be a part of it, and I remember those experiences.

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.

It eventually ends, and that's what I think a lot of athletes forget. It's 10 years after the Olympics, and you won the Olympics, and that's great, but no one cares.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

They want everything to be better for their children. I think athletes are starting to see that and that's why they're starting to speak out.

I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

Especially as pro athletes, at the highest level, what we put into our bodies plays a huge part in our performance.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

We, as athletes, have our suspicions about who's cheating, but I'm not convinced that the testing has yet caught up with what people are using or what they are using to disguise it.

I think he [Leonardo DiCaprio] is a terrific actor. And I've - I've been rooting and voting for him since "Gilbert Grape." I thought he was so amazing in that one. He was a young man, really very young boy.

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.

When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young artist, I was filling up my portfolio with alien planets and spacecraft and things like that.

I'm only 24, which is still young, but I don't think of myself as one of the young lads anymore. I suppose that's how people have always seen me. But there comes a time when you have to take extra responsibility.

Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.

I don’t have anger towards women. It’s the first script I wrote, I was really young. I got older. It’s told from an angry point-of-view. Young men are crazy strange emotional beings.

I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.

If you can help someone become a good young woman or a good young man, they have a better chance of surviving in this business.

When I come to a baseball game, I appreciate the athleticism of these top-tier athletes. When they come to our shows, it's the same thing.

Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.

Athletes are moved - human beings are moved - by challenges.

Cycling is a sport of amazing athletes. Its been a privilege and a honor for me to be in this sport and to have a chance to race at the highest level.

Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.

'The Body Issue' is celebrating athletes' bodies, different sizes, different shapes... For me it's a celebration, and it's an honor to be in it.

That's what defines the best athletes: being capable of showing up year after year at the highest level.

All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.

When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.

Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.

It is so important that our federation stands by our athletes.

If you think childlike, you'll stay young. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, you're gunna stay young. But most people do things without energy, and they atrophy their mind as well as their body. You have to think young, you have to laugh a lot, and you have to have good feelings for everyone in the world, because if you don't, it's going to come inside, your own poison, and it's over.

When you compete with better athletes, you also get better.

The fear among athletes and organizers is that sailing is becoming more associated with silver hair than silver trophies.

The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.

I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the James Bond, and I got to do that for a bit, and that was great.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away