Quotes About Athletes

Michael Phelps is a good friend of mine, so I'm very supportive of him.

What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be.

We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

I'm a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have.

Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.

After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

I remember watching Ring of Honor as a fan, going to shows in Philadelphia and New York, and I loved the guys. I thought these are some of the best wrestlers in the world, if not THE best.

Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time

He remembers when you didn't need FBI clearance to talk to a ballplayer and baseball was what you did until you grew up.

The medical scans of the players who hailed from climates warmer than Britain tended to reveal much healthier joints.

Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.

You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.