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Quotes About Athletes

It's just good to be back in the locker room.
~ William Green
I think when you're not in the NFL or when you're early in your career, you don't understand how hard guys work, especially the guys that play a long time and are successful.
~ Adam Thielen
I like George Gervin a lot, even as a guy that played a long time ago.
~ Brandon Ingram
Women's MMA has come a really long way. People look forward to us fighting, and they get excited.
~ Cat Zingano
I'm looking forward to playing against LeBron.
~ Mohamed Bamba
I believe that some athletes have fear, but you have to work on that. Athletes can't have fear. Fear of what? Fear of losing? Everybody loses one day.
~ Cris Cyborg
Professional lacrosse isn't very lucrative.
~ Chris Hogan
In Madrid there is a lot of competition.
~ Raphael Varane
I was mainly a blocker in college. I mainly lined up in the backfield at fullback.
~ Glenn Gronkowski
The mainstream thinks that every skateboarder aspires to be in the X Games.
~ Rob Dyrdek
Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
~ Candace Parker
We concluded that one thing we can do is to just go through the locker room and make sure that if anybody is using anything, it's a product from one of the approved manufacturers.
~ Bob McNair
A couple of sportsmen taking their ease.
~ Don DeLillo
If each of us is the center of his or her existence, Orest seemed intent on enlarging the center, making it everything. Is this what athletes do, occupy the self more fully? It's possible we envy them for a prowess that has little to do with sport. In building toward a danger, they escape it in some deeper sense, the dwell in some angelic scan, able to leap free of everyday dying.
~ Don DeLillo
If each of us is the center of his or her existence, Orest seemed intent on enlarging the center, making it everything. Is this what athletes do, occupy the self more fully? It's possible we envy them for a prowess that has little to do with sport. In building toward a danger, they escape it in some deeper sense, they dwell in some angelic scan, able to leap free of everyday dying.
~ Don DeLillo
HGH was responsible for human growth, and lack of it caused dwarfism, or too much of it caused NBA players.
~ J.A. Konrath
The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.
~ Unknown
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
~ Jackie Chan
Sports is all about money.
~ Lynn Samuels
Professional sports is a business.
~ Lynn Swann
I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.
~ Lynn Swann
When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.
~ Bryn Terfel
I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
~ Sergei Bubka