Quotes About Athletes

People often look to great athletes for lessons about performance. ... But success in medicine has dimensions that cannot be found on a playing field.

Baseball players, for example, are notoriously superstitious.

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

In the fun house of today's metastisizing sports-entertainment megaplex, when every day brings another story revealing how these 'heroes' we create are fashioned from base clay, a pause might be in order to reflect on athletes who actually embodied the qualities we think we admire in the too-easily deified.

Sportswear and activewear have been evolving over the years, and what makes it interesting is how you reflect the culture in which we're living in - whether it's creating clothing for a certain sport or creating new materials that we think athletes or people who are physical want to wear.

On average we're meant to drink 2-3 litres each day, but for regular runners I'd recommend 3-5 litres.

I think every single girl you face is good at handling pressure. That's part of why they're successful on a regular basis from season to season and over a lot of years.

Yerry Mina's a great guy. He's also a great dancer! When he played for Palmeira,s he'd always celebrate with a dance. We became friends, and I speak to him regularly.

Most strikers playing in the Premier League regularly are aged around 23 or 24.

A lot of people have a different perspective on this but my personal view is that while things have become more professional with we being centrally contracted, we don't play as regularly as the men do. The number of matches we play is too less as compared to men.

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

I would bet you that even though people think I absorbed an inordinate number of head injuries, I'd say relative to the number of guys who have played this game, I would say that my head injuries were relatively small.

The Olympics is not really about the sport, it's about the story behind the person. You keep the sport relatively simple to understand - let the fans understand that a takedown is 1 point, a turn is 2, a pin and the match is over. Keep it simple, and keep the story on the individual.

To relax in the Premier League is not good.

You can not relax against Ribery and Benzema.

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

I feel like I've always had a quick release.

When I was a little kid, I don't remember looking up and seeing so many Hispanic athletes out there.

Historically, companies haven't hesitated to end their relationships with professional athletes amid scandals.

Before there was a Ronda Rousey, there was a Gina Carano and Cris Cyborg. They finally fought, and we found out who was the baddest woman on the planet, and that was Cris Cyborg. When she hits people, I'm like, 'Whoo!'

QB's have it good. They don't take any hits. They have the most pay. The most glamour.

Punters are players, too. They got to learn to take the hits. If they dont want to get hit, they shouldnt be out there.

I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.

I'm pretty close to Miguel Cabrera. We are such different hitters, but at the same time, we're pretty close because we both like to hit the ball middle-away.