Quotes About Athletes

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

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

In fact, erythropoietin, a hormone that stimulated red blood cell production, and thus increased oxygen-carrying capacity, was well known for its ability to confer dramatic increases in endurance. This hormone had long been used as a doping drug by athletes, most notably Lance Armstrong, but was only a tiny fraction as effective as Ella's respirocytes.

After all, in the sporting world, being discovered to have taken testosterone is ordinarily grounds to prevent someone from competing – unless, it turns out, the person is taking testosterone to transition to the opposite sex. In which case sensitivity overrides science.

The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.

In the United States, for example, two equally skilled and disciplined athletes—one a world-class gymnast and the other a world-class basketball player—are likely to enjoy wildly different degrees of fame and fortune through no fault or merit of their own.

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

PRINCIPLE 3: To build capacity, we must push beyond our normal limits, training in the same systematic way that elite athletes do.

The performance demands that most people face in their everyday work environments dwarf those of any professional athletes we have ever trained.

Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

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

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

Professional athletes have been blessed by God.

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

We're professional footballers, so we have to go out there and perform as best we can and try and get the results that we want.

My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.