Quotes About Athlete

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

Just having what's important, to have people around you to support and take care of you. That's the most important thing when you are a professional athlete.

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

You know, the one thing you never lose as a sportsman is your competitiveness.

Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I can only stop once I've set the bar as high as possible for anyone coming after me.

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

The problem with being married to an athlete who is, like, 19 feet tall and can just eat, like, 17 burgers at 11 o'clock at night is, you're like, 'I'll have just three of those burgers,' and you think you're being good because he had 19 and you had three!

The problem with my shoulders was something I inherited from my dad. The left one would pop out and then pop back in - absolute agony - during almost every game last season, so I had surgery to put it right last summer.

Behind every successful athlete there is a responsible coach.

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.

I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life.

My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

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.

Professional golfer... what a life.

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I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

There is an itch in runners.

He was also a terrific baseball player. That's what had helped him refine his waist: tens of thousands of reps twisting to swing a bat.

It is the dream of every athlete to qualify and compete in the Olympics and I am no different.

Qualifying for the Champions League is not possible without a player like Dimitri Payet.

Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.

Every quarterback's goofy. Every player out here is goofy. Don't think they're all serious.