Quotes About Athlete

Bob Hope has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee.

You can't stop the White Mamba! You can only hope to contain him!

As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.

Thanks to all the fans from Detroit and Philly who are recognizing what type of player I am, and I hope they keep supporting the Sixers.

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

I can't palm a basketball.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

Di Stéfano was one of the greatest footballers ever. He had such great balance.

Describing her as Barbie is actually sort of insulting to Barbie. Barbie, however plastic, has had many brilliant careers as veterinarian, olympic athlete, and ever paleontologist. And she's traveled the world.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

There was no way I was going to end up in the scrum when I came to rugby - you know, waste my pretty looks.

The life of a boxing athlete is short, so I don't have time to waste or time to take tune-up fights or whatever.