Quotes About Athletes

You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

For me, it's all about who you are. Some athletes may feel a responsibility. Some may not. One thing I've talked with my family and team about is doing more. Trying to make an impact.

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

Dijo Pep: "Todos sois iguales es la mentira más grande que existe en el deporte. No todos son iguales, ni todos deben ser tratados iguales".

Why an inordinate interest in animals and athletes? They are subjects for art and exemplars of it, are they not? minding their own business. Pangolins, hornbills, pitchers, catchers, do not pry or prey—or prolong the conversation; do not make us self-conscious; look their best when caring least.

We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

I monitor the food my players eat on a Friday night. It's no good if they've had two vindaloos and a kebab.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

what the researchers were saying was that the essence of football—the unavoidable head banging that occurs on every play, like a woodpecker jackhammering at a tree—can unleash a cascading series of neurological events that in the end strangles your brain, leaving you unrecognizable. The

Brady has compared playing football with "getting into a car crash every Sunday—a scheduled car crash." I've heard players use this image before, and doctors who have treated football injuries.

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.

It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.

It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O.