Top 1200 Young Athletes Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

If we are in fact using name, image and likeness of student-athletes, they should be compensated.

I think it's important for athletes to set a tone in a way that we're looking to build bridges.

I don't think it's up to black athletes to get involved in political or racial issues.

As professional athletes, we get pitched business or investment opportunities all the time, wherever we are.

Bobsleigh is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball.

Athletes are in a position where others think they shouldn't weigh in on certain social topics.

The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

My career is over because I don't have the stage to perform where athletes get the proper respect.

I think it is important for young people to see other young people on television doing something positive with their life, making positive changes and growing. I don't think there is enough of that on TV. I mean, we've got 'Jersey Shore,' and I don't know what that teaches young kids.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.

There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

On a personal level, the 'Young Apprentice' schedule is very long. The children needed long breaks so the sheer amount of time it took made it tougher. There was a lot more hanging around. But as a show, championing young people and promoting young people who are willing to have a go, I thought it was great.

Bobsled is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.

Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.

I think actors, athletes, and anyone who's a public speaker is very amazing or fascinating to me.

I think athletes are, in general, tired of so much of their persona being controlled by the media.

Be young. Keep yourself young by having a good, sporty car like a Corvette. It keeps you on your toes. It keeps you young. It keeps you thinking young. It keeps you thinking modern and good things. Corvette is a modern, modern automobile.

If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually other young people saying that, who don't know any better. It's good to have a survival instinct because increasingly, especially in the whole Arab Spring sort of violence, you're mostly with young people who have not experienced what they're doing before.

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.

Women today are respected as athletes now and that's a really cool thing to see.

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

If you own an event, it's your job to make sure the athletes are satisfied when they fight.

College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.

The UFC makes 80, and athletes make 20. That's what happens. That's the real story.

For athletes, it's extremely tough to trust people with your finances. It's so easy to be victimized.

Historically, companies haven't hesitated to end their relationships with professional athletes amid scandals.

I have to stay hydrated. It's very important for anyone, but especially athletes! We sweat a lot, and we need it.

I was a needy person. I think most pro athletes are. We're all used to a lot of attention.

I don't know what stops Indian athletes from expressing their thoughts freely, maybe it is the fear of repercussions.

I am actually a huge supporter of the Canadian athletes, and they are all really nice people.

We're professional athletes, and we have moments where we step back, and we have to think and assess everything in life.

In order to stay ahead of the young talent, you have to pay attention. You have to see what young talents are doing, and I see what a lot of young talents are doing.

I didn't have any specific gym training, my parents weren't athletes and I wasn't born into the fitness industry.

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.

I have lots of athletes in my family and they showed me how to waterski - slalom, barefoot - all that stuff.

We're often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

Many young people don't vote because they feel unwelcome and irrelevant, and that's the system's fault... As much as MTV tries to get them to vote, politicians don't include young voters because young voters don't donate money.

Trust the young. Young people have a lot to contribute, but generation after generation, those who reach power protect that power rather than teach others how to attain it. I resolved that if I ever became successful, I would trust the young.

Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.

Some fighters think they're athletes and it's a sport. I know I'm athletic, but I'm a fighter first.

As athletes, we're always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don't think about it.

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

There is a stigma around athletes, and I think the more that us as humans can do to break those, the better.

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

I'm a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have.

I had the opportunity to run up and down the court with the greatest athletes in the world.

The ultimate dream of an athlete is to compete in the Olympics. For us athletes, that is the zenith. There is nothing beyond that.

The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

In the early 1980s, top athletes hardly got the kind of exposure needed.

I'm an athletic junkie - I play in all the celebrity all-star games, and I've become buddies with a bunch of athletes.

U.S. and Russia - both coach their athletes from the grassroots level on and provide scientific training.

When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.