Quotes About Athletes

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.

What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport.

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.