Quotes About Athlete

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.

I just play the game. I hit a shot and wait for the next guy to hit his. I don't think between shots-that's my nature.

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

I have done 'Sports Illustrated, ' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

Deion) Sanders made history as the first athlete to hit a home run in the major leagues and site a touchdown in the same week.

If you wanted to show that someone was a good chap, the essence of a good and clean Englishman, you would say that he was an athlete.

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it.

If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god.