Quotes About Athletes

Overall, I believe there has been a significant shift in the acceptance and appreciation of Paralympic athletes, but we still have a long way to go.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

We play so hard and overall the Olympics are such a positive experience.

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

I think the best cover corner I've faced is Patrick Peterson. He's been great so long that people really overlook him.

I think that - this is my personal opinion - but sometimes African American athletes are considered overly cocky.

Like bankers, top footballers are massively overpaid, but at least you comprehend what they're doing for the money.

Arm strength, I think, is a thing that's, like, incredibly overrated in the NFL.

Here in the NBA they play a lot of fast basketball. Overseas it's not like that. It's more half-court plays and stuff.

A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.

I think American fans, they know more college guys than guys overseas.

There's a lot of guys who are drafted and end up not playing in the NBA. They get their money for their first whatever years and end up going overseas or something like that.

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much

Personally I don't care to watch a bunch of millionaires throw balls at each other.

Grantland Rice, the dean of those sportswriters. "When a sportswriter stops making heroes out of athletes," Rice once said, "it's time to get out of the business.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

The old-time strongmen and physical culturalists used to understand that squats worked the entire thigh—the hamstrings as well as the quads, and as a result most of them only focused on squatting motions for the legs.

Good design looks easy. Like great athletes, great designers make it look easy. Mostly this is an illusion.

Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requires. Unless they also happen to be good-looking, natural athletes, or siblings of popular kids, they'll tend to become nerds.

It's no secret that kettlebells were standard equipment for Eastern Bloc strength athletes and old time strongmen—they are excellent for swings, laterals, rowing and a variety of throwing-related movements.

Apart from safety, there are many reasons to lift and lower your weights slowly: three to five seconds on the way up and three to five on the way down is the Power to the People! rule. First, muscular tension drops off as the velocity increases. Considering that tension is what we are after, it is a dumb idea. Just note that the athletes with the most spectacular muscular definition are those from sports requiring slow exertions, such as gymnastics.