Quotes About Athlete

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

I am an avid tennis player.

If I weren't a tennis player, I'd probably be a psychologist.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.

I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.

I'm a good tennis player, and I've never done so good on grass.

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

Shawn Porter is a terrific fighter and he's a great friend of mine. He's a devastating boxer-puncher like myself.

I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.

Ronda Rousey is a groundbreaker. She is one who charts through territory that has never been explored before and is one of the biggest sports stars in the world, male or female.

It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.

I'm one of the most tested athletes in the world.

To an extreme athlete, there's a certain appeal to doing extreme things - seeking the most extreme physical challenges in some of the most extreme climates in the world. Testing and expanding the limits of human endurance is kind of my thing.

As a company, the best that we can do is not only penalize but rehabilitate. Speaking for myself, I've always been strong. I don't need that club to put in my bag. This is a choice of the athlete, not the sanctioning body. We do substance abuse testing, impact testing, cardiac testing, so we try to sniff out these problems before they even start.

I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.