Top 1200 Young Athletes Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The most important thing to me is to inspire all these athletes in the next generation.

We tend to look at successful athletes and make them almost bigger than life. I have seen many young men who have achieved greatness. I have also seen those who have come up a little short of their potential. I do know that those who succeed have been able to recognize within themselves the potential to do something well and then work hard to prepare themselves for that eventual opportunity. Others wait for the opportunity to come and then start to work, thus coming up a little short.

As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.

I was really disappointed with the lack of respect from the UFC towards Brazilian athletes.

They are allowing young kids in primary school to be able to have the permission to change their gender if they want by taking away the permission of the parents. They are trying to take control, as a government, to make those decisions for young kids who are basically 16 years old, or young.

Books changed my perception about the sacrifices we make as athletes.

Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

There are so many other way more popular athletes than me.

Most athletes act all unhuman and you can't relate to them. I'm the exact opposite.

Puma does a really good job with its athletes and providing what we want.

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

Newsflash: competitive athletes fight sometimes. They also are egomaniacs.

Just being with some of the best athletes in the world is a marvelous experience.

If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

Some athletes can master two sports, but most are only good at one.

It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

I want to inspire the next generation of athletes, not just figure skaters.

I'm very familiar with World of Sport, some of the characters, and great athletes.

As athletes, when you find something that gets to someone you have to press their buttons.

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

I do support college athletes and the opportunity for them to be paid a stipend.

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

We can do a lot of different things as athletes - we can speak, we can mentor, we can coach.

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes.

My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.

Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.

Young women should be telling stories of other young women. And if the superstar who is an amazing storyteller isn't a writer, that's totally fine, but we should get a young female writer in the room to work on that song with us.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

I'm one of those athletes, I compete better for coaches that I have a lot of love and respect for.

Every day, we read about athletes who let their sport define them.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

If you think about who retires during their prime, the number of athletes who do that is very small.

As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

Too often athletes think there's these norms that I have to fit into and there are people that I have to please.

Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them.

A lot of female athletes only have time off when they injure themselves.

Athletes love challenges, and golf is something you can never master.

I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money.

A ton of athletes, even if they know your name, pretend they don't.

Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.

I think Canadians support their athletes a little better than the Australians do.

I don't think I have whatever that thing is that makes some athletes bad with money.

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain.

An athlete is not a robot, not a machine. Wellbeing of athletes is absolute necessary.

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.

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College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.