Top 1200 Young Athletes Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.

I always thought the list needed to be longer. We needed to have a stronger representation of Jewish athletes, and I'm so happy to that I'm part of them now.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

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Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.

I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.

There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.

I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

It's a lot for young players to be expected to deal with all the media, and... there is a lot of pressure to be perfect, but at 19, 20, 21, 22, you're still young and learning.

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.

You've got to respect your body and know the time to transition to what's next. A lot of athletes cannot transition. They don't have nothing to do after.

As a young footballer I used to look up to a number of stars for inspiration and I understand what Bhaichung must have done for all young Indians aspiring to be footballer.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.

Many times, we athletes have a camera in front of us and in many cases a lot of people with that same background or history do not have that opportunity.

I feel like the eight most at-risk years for young men or young women are the four they're in high school and the four they should be in college.

I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you.

Great athletes last because they let the mental do all the work. What we do as hoofers is not so much a physical strain as everybody thinks. It's more of a mental stretch.

People don't really understand how important our voices are. I think there's a lot of athletes that don't use their power that really should.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport.

I've just been competitive all my life. That draws from a competitive family. We're all athletes, and we're all trying to win no matter what it is, whether it's Scrabble or basketball.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

I'm really excited about the revolution that is young people actually playing young people on Broadway.

There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.

People, when they look at athletes, they tend to determine who they are based on 1., how they play, and 2. - more than anything - how much they make.

There are a lot of great athletes on the PGA Tour and a lot of good basketball players. But I can definitely put my name in the mix as one of the best.

Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.

I know firsthand the way that Fox supports their athletes because they've been there for me since the beginning. I know that I can count on them.

Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.

The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.

When you're really young, you're young for life.

A lot of people see M.M.A. as this violent cage fighting, and they don't see it as being two athletes who have put so much time and energy and focus into it.

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

In society, it's hard for some to view women getting hit. They see the women as different figures rather than as athletes and fighters.

I wanted to start creating opportunities for actors out there that weren't so cut-and-dried... My ultimate goal with Outlier is to give these young creatives and young creative hustlers the opportunity to leave their fingerprint on the world.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

The young give us hope because young people are certain their best days still lie ahead - which explains why they're absolutely convinced they can change the world for the better.

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.

Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they're just plain emasculated.

I think it would be tough for a lot of the athletes that I play with to think that while that I'm showering, that I'm performing on the field, I'm bleeding, I'm fighting with a person that is a homosexual.

I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.

Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.

There was something about being in Rio, being around the other Olympic athletes and playing for the U.S. It was the most special experience I've had.

There's a long history and a pattern of Black athletes - and Black people, period - being told to shut up and accept whatever it is they're given.

Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.

In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.