Quotes About Athletics

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

After any game you're going to get the love, the hate: That's just what comes with being a professional athlete.

With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.

I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.

Ever since I was a little boy, I had my eyes set on being able to say I was a professional athlete. I worked hard every day to make sure that it became a possibility and sacrificed a lot for the game of football.

Not everyone wants to go to school. Some guys might be blessed with being 6'10 and running and jumping better than anybody, so they want to be a professional athlete. There's nothing wrong with that.

My dream was always to be a professional athlete.

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

That's why you went to school, because you realize that, being a professional athlete, there's a good chance you're not going to make it. You need an education, that's why for me, it was such an important decision to go to college and further my education to provide me a safety net in case this didn't work out.

As a professional athlete, the onus is on you to take responsibility.

Even if you don't become a professional athlete, the experience of working with a team, knowing how to set goals, and working every day to figure out how to accomplish those goals definitely gives you confidence to apply those same characteristics to other life challenges.

Being a professional athlete, people respect the fact that I respect eSports professional gamers.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.

I played 13 years. I did quite well in professional football. Therefore, I do not need.

I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition every day.

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

I don't say I'm necessarily a professional football player. I'm a competitor. That's what was instilled in me as a young boy.

I've played as a winger all of my professional life and I'm looking forward to doing that now in front of the Everton fans.

I play a kids' game professionally and I love it.

I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.

I had an opportunity to go overseas and play professionally, but in the final game of my senior season, I blew my knee out.

Deion Sanders played two sports, and Bo Jackson played two sports. I'm not athletic enough to do two sports, but I think I'm good enough to do two professions and do them pretty well at a high level.