Quotes About Athletes

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

I've always had a passion to follow the development of new athletes and that's what I intend to continue doing.

The government will continue to support India's paralympians with facilities and funding so that they may continue to excel internationally.

I still get a rush of adrenaline after a big game, but the older I get, the more I laugh at the days when I was nervous to interview an athlete or coach.

The most successful endurance athletes over the age of 40 are so similar in personality it's almost uncanny. What we see in all of these men and women is a limitless passion for sport and for the athletic lifestyle that stems from a positive, life-embracing personality (i.e., a non-neurotic, open, extraverted, conscientious style of coping with life). A

Well-trained athletes have an easier time achieving flow because they are less physically self-conscious.

Red Sox fans will always remember Game 4 for three big moments: (1) Dave Roberts's ninth-inning stolen base; (2) Bill Mueller's single that tied the game; and (3) David Ortiz's 12th-inning home run that won it.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

Athletes who can perform on demand—Torres, Phelps, Ledecky—are enough like SEALs that this was Bauman's mantra for the American swimmers in Rio, in 2016: Swim like a dolphin, think like a SEAL.

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

Old-time tennis fans like to say the 1980s produced the greatest cast of characters and performers in tennis—McEnroe

McEnroe, Connors, Becker, Evert, Navratilova, Lendl, Borg

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.

Miller knew nothing about toy retailing, but in a pattern that would recur over and over, Bezos didn't care. He was looking for versatile managers—he called them "athletes"—who could move fast and get big things done. Miller was given

He was looking for versatile managers—he called them "athletes"—who could move fast and get big things done.

Yea, I wrote my college thesis on why college athletes should get paid. I think there's a way to do it based on the amount of revenue they generate.

New Japan is far superior to WWE when it comes to the quality of the roster and the quality of the matches.

I think I have faced pretty much everyone that is in the WWE.

I think the WWE is a great place for professional athletes. Floyd Mayweather did it. Mike Tyson has done it. Even Donald Trump has appeared in the ring.

You just never know what is going to happen in WWE. That is why it is so magical.

Luckily, here in WWE, they have a mega-awesome medical group. They're there at every show. If something is hurting even slightly, they're gonna ice it or something. They take care of us so well.

Do not try doing the things that we do one TV in WWE. We're the entertainers, we're the professionals.

I think that the potential of Total Divas and female athletes is that the sky is the limit. People want to know about these women, and in the WWE, we call it the Divas Revolution - it's a movement for women's empowerment.