Quotes About Athletes

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

I think people have a misconception of athletes when they think about what goes through their heads, you know what I'm saying?

When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every athlete, so it just feel like it's a little bit of a missed opportunity - but I'm only 23. I have just got to get on now and keep going.

I'll say there's a lot of good athletes out there, but the key thing that I see missing is being able to put it all together in order to tell a story. In every match you can tell a story.

I hate missing dunks.

Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are.

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.

The thing I hate about mixed martial arts is that it's no longer a sport. It's a big-money business, and it's an entertainment industry.

I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

I feel like people always thought my sister and I were models. I think it was just because if you went through Diva Search, that's just what you were. We were never models; we were athletes. We were athletes who fell in love with wrestling.

I think we have a great opportunity as fighters and athletes to be good role models. I'm by no means perfect, but I think we can try.

For the women's team, our job is to be professional footballers for club and country and be the best role models we can be.

Women sportspersons like Krishna Poonia and Seema Antil are role models for Haryanvi women.

Jess Ennis, Chrissie Ohuruogu, Vicky Pendleton and Laura Trott, to name a few, have acted as female role models in England.

Those are the moments athletes live for - we live for those exhilarating, breathless, take-your-breath-away, you're-on-the-seat-of-your-chair moments.

Confidence and momentum are huge in sport.

It's not just about women's cricket, but everywhere, every athlete's momentum has been broken because of Covid-19.

I don't believe footballers have to live like monks.

I'm a huge fan of Clyde Frazier and Earl Monroe.

Brett Favre was one of my favorite players. Joe Montana, obviously, was great.

I don't know if I would personally want to step in the cage and either have my face caved in or cave in somebody else's, but I've met some really beautiful and sensitive and morally pretty stout individuals who happen to be fighters. It's really awesome.

Major league hitters have more power. But Japanese hitters are very good at making contact. I don't like either.

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.

I was just really excited to win the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m in Moscow and then, to top that off, to win the Diamond Race in the 100m and 200m.