Quotes About Athlete

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius.

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.

The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.

My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.

I help design my own tennis clothes.

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.

Yeah, I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!

Kirk Cousins is the future of the Washington Redskins.

Messi is out of this world. Scoring 86 goals this year... In 2012. What an incredible accomplishment

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.

I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.