Quotes About Athletes

People just have no idea how strange and surreal a football life can be.

We always interfere with nature. I think if tennis players continue to wear headbands they will end up killing off eyebrows, as they're there to catch sweat.

Do you think horses like to race?

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

Congratulations to Mexico. They upset Brazil to win a gold medal in men's soccer. And after the Olympics ended, the Mexican soccer team, of course, returned home to their houses here in Los Angeles.

It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

Mark (McGwire) is the man.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.

Some athletes are super fashionable and not good. It's like c'mon man focus on your craft, be who you're supposed to be and then go put on the clothes.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

People complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don't understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids.

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

Sports is all about money.

The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .

In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.

I think money in general hurts all sports.

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.