Quotes About Athletes

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

I think it's important that we as athletes do whatever we can to help kids, primarily helping kids of color.

I always say I wish I was in my prime matching up against LeBron. Let's see how many championships he would have won then.

We avoided injuries that season. It was our fourth year with Vince, so we all knew just what he wanted. And a lot of our core guys were in their prime. It was an incredible season.

If you think about who retires during their prime, the number of athletes who do that is very small.

I would never have wanted to play with Magic Johnson, I would never have wanted to play with Michael Jordan, I would never have wanted to play with Karl Malone or John Stockton in my prime. We wanted to play against the Shaqs, the Kobes.

The difference between the good players and the great is how long they stay in their prime.

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

We will always make sure player health and safety is our No. 1 priority in the NFL.

People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.

We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

Tennis has always been at the forefront of equality between men and women's prize money.

We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.

I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that... or 'Come on, you got to be tough... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.

NXT is the part of the WWE that is about competition. It's not sports entertainment, it's the pro wrestling side and that's what we do.

As athletes and pro sports franchises, we have the responsibility to use our platform to affect positive change in the community. I take it seriously.

Especially as pro athletes, at the highest level, what we put into our bodies plays a huge part in our performance.

They eat clean, they don't drink sodas, they don't have fast food. My kids eat like pro athletes.

I just like people that bring in a very competitive mentality to pro wrestling.

There's not a bunch of pressure at the Pro Bowl.

Most pro athletes are super competitive, super clutch, and they don't want to lose at anything.

Pro athletes don't even practice as much as college players.

I think many fighters could go pro in another sport. When it really boils down to it, it's because we are the best athletes in the world.