Quotes About Athlete

During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.

I used to play baseball. I was playing even in high school.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.

It is an honor and privilege to be able to be in a position to utilize my platform as a professional athlete to support the lives of others.

Sometimes the fighter or an athlete feels they're valued a certain price, and sometimes we don't feel that way.

I feel I should be valued as a player, not so much my position.

Las galas no tienen nada que ver con la virtud, que es la fuerza y el vigor del alma. El hombre de bien es un atleta que se complace en combatir desnudo: desprecia todos los viles ornatos que estorbarían la utilización de sus fuerzas y que no han sido inventados en su mayoría sino para esconder alguna deformidad.

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

Fast bowling is not an easy job. Especially if you are also a batsman as well as being a fast bowler, a fast bowler has to work harder than any other cricketer on his fitness.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

I've been an athlete most of my life and on a disciplined schedule. Working out for me is just part of my every day.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance?

Werdum is good, is a smart fighter. He knows how to set up a beautiful strategy.

I am doing a lot of core training exercises to build and strengthen my body, spending more time in gym. I am also doing endurance training like repeating 300m, 350m races in a day. Then I also do repeat of 60m, 70m.

Some people have knees, ankles. It's always been my back. That's been one thing I've always had to be conscious about strengthening and being in rehab. Pretty much I've always rehabbed it.

I feel my conditioning is one of my strengths.

Every striker has their way of playing and their strengths and a different team behind them. That is very important.

Everybody knows what Peter Crouch's strengths are and when he plays he is a handful for any side.

I was always a goal scorer in my youth career, that was one of my strengths.

In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.