Quotes About Athletes

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.

The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.

I think money in general hurts all sports.

His psychiatrist told him that he had triumphed back then by adopting mental strategies that professional athletes used routinely—setting clearly defined goals, visualizing themselves performing flawlessly, and repeating affirmations that crowded out all doubts and fears until they were replaced with unshakable self-belief.

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

Only with the London games of 1908 did the now familiar model of official gold, silver and bronze medals, awarded on the day they were won, emerge. Even then, the ceremony lacked drama. There was no podium, no flags, and no music, just the gruff words of IOC grandees and floral bouquets. Flags and music arrived in 1928, but there was still no podium.

A good team was simply a group of very disparate athletes who assembled each day from radically different lives and—with luck—for one shared moment put aside their differences, their dislikes, their egos and their rivalries, harnessing their energies towards a common goal.

It is not uncommon for black athletes, particularly those who are demonstrative, animated, and passionate, to be called out as selfish, mean, destructive, crazy, difficult, and otherwise not good teammates.

(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.

Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better.