Athletes Quotes

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

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

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

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

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

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

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

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.

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

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

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

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

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.

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

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.