Quotes About Athletes

Yawning was linked to stress. Athletes yawned before competition, paratroopers before a drop. Part of the flight or fight, linked to the hypothalamus.

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

I love all sports.

I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating.

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

Every pro ball team on the planet has "lights out" by at least 10 or 11 o'clock the night before a game.

PBR Bulls are the talent, the cowboys are the props and both are tasked with putting on a great show for the audience

She was surprised, in short, that athletes were not intellectual, for somewhere within her was still a notion that famous people must necessarily be brilliant in every way.

There's a general belief that athletes aren't overburdened by brains (not at all true by the way), but I can't believe Nevile Strange is a complete moron.

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

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

From what I've read, Gen Z largely favors players over teams and that's one of the reasons it's so important to showcase MLB player personalities.

In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

I'm a little bit more introverted than maybe some of the big personalities in the sport.

Such great goalkeepers have played in England over the years - the likes of Gordon Banks, Peter Shilton, and Bert Trautmann.

I watched so many matches of Jarnail Singh, P.K. Banerjee, Chuni Goswami and Peter Thangaraj.

With Kyrie and KD, if you're telling me I get to come out here and pass to two phenomenal scorers and get 10 assists a game and maybe be in second gear a lot of times with my scoring, I'm fine.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar are phenomenal.

There's a reason that football players, that still choose to come over to train MMA. They're professional and phenomenal freak athletes and they know how to work as professional athletes. They know how to get better and know how to improve.

I think there's a lot of successful referees to come out of the Philadelphia area because the basketball is so good.

Darts is huge in the Philippines and Pacquiao is much bigger over there than David Beckham is here. I'm happy playing darts against him but I wouldn't want to box him.

I am hopeful that weightlifting will grow with more kids getting into the sport not just from Zamboanga City or Cebu but all over the Philippines who can become the next Hidilyn Diaz.

I believe that we will see a lot of great champions come out of the Philippines.

If you've ever seen photos of LeBron James away from the basketball court, it's obvious he takes great pride in his appearance.