Quotes About Athletes

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

I've got a clothing sponsor that helps me out with my clothes. It's called Bulky Boy Clothing, and they pretty much provide me with most of the shirts that I wear.

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.

On the U.S.A. team our income wasn't coming from U.S.A. It was coming from sponsors, it was coming from how we made money elsewhere.

Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.

People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport.

Soccer is Europe's biggest sport and the world's biggest sport, so as we look to go into Europe, soccer is the way to do it because of the sport's size and scale, as well as its athletes who know and understand our brand.

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

People forget that I'm a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We're human. We're not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don't think people really understand that.

I respect all the fighters. I respect Georges St-Pierre because Georges has a great story in the UFC. I respect all the fighters in here because this is the biggest sport in the world.

I think we both matured together in this sport, so I think fight between Michael Bisping and myself would mean a lot.

Nike is at its best when we focus on the future. Sport is in a constant state of progression. Athletes are expanding their potential every day - and so must we.

You need to go near to the people and actually sensitize them about the sport - specifically running. If athletes can go near their fans, many people would develop a love for running.

I play sport all the time.

Let me make this clear: I think USADA has moved my sport forward in certain ways that I couldn't have imagined.

I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

The Olympic Games are the greatest sporting event in the world.

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.

I think flexibility in general is something that needs to be reinforced, and not only baseball players but all sports.

When I think of those who were the greatest in their respective sports, it was their drive for perfection that made them the best.