Quotes About Athletes

We're not telling you we're out there fighting each other. We're going out there to entertain you.

When a country doesn't respect Black lives, maybe it doesn't deserve to be entertained by Black athletes.

Eventually I will own my own company and will provide advice to athletes and artists from the entertainment industry.

I don't watch ESPN.

Playing in New York, there's a lot of pressure, but me and some Europeans like the pressure.

In the NBA you better come to play every night, where in the NBDL the talent level just isn't there and maybe you have guys taking a night off.

To compete against the best players is something I really enjoy every night.

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.

Football Players Are Really Dumb

talking about, just look at the Celtics.

People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite. EPO granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder than you'd ever imagined, in both training and racing.

Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements.

The Paralympic Games actually turned my whole mentality around about disability. When you're in the Paralympic athletes' village and there are 4,000 disabled people, you stop seeing disability. Totally.

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.

All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.

Tinder in the Olympic Village is next level. It's all athletes! In the mountain village, it's all athletes. It's hilarious.

Truly sports is a great unifier as our athletes come from villages and cities, north to south, from east to west.

It's kind of hard for boxing, which is a violent sport, to get the respect that it deserves.

Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?

Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they're signing up for it.

That's how the NFL is. It's a dangerous, violent game, and there's only so many opportunities, and only the best of the best play it.

A lot of people see M.M.A. as this violent cage fighting, and they don't see it as being two athletes who have put so much time and energy and focus into it.