Quotes About Athlete

It's hard for an athlete to quit what he's done his whole life.

I started playing when I was 10 for Milan, and I quit when I was 41, so it's a long, long career.

I started playing golf after a broken knee led me to quit my career as an elite gymnast. It wasn't long before I became one of the world's top-ranked amateur players.

I've been training all my life, but probably didn't grow muscle-y until I quit doing basketball. I played for Iceland's under-18 and under-17 team, so it wasn't until probably 2007, 2008 that I start to gain a lot of weight.

I want to be a professional athlete who plays for the love of the game, never quits trying to give my best and is a good role model for all of the kids who look up to baseball players.

You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.

A guy like me, yes, I am good in terms of championship races, and that's where I dominate - but in terms of running fast times, I haven't quite done that.

Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.

I'm from Minnesota and have always lived there. And my competitive career actually started in the late '90s racing motocross, which then turned into racing snowmobiles professionally. I turned pro in 2003, racing with the best in the world and living my dream as a professional athlete.

I love track racing and I'm proud to be a British cyclist and proud to pull on the jersey to represent my country.

Rafael Nadal, I see no demons in him. None. Unless he picks up the racket with his right hand.

I think a knockout over Elkins will really put me on the radar internationally.

Who's on my radar? I don't have a radar. I always look at myself as a top athlete. They come after me. I don't go after them because I'm where they want to be.

Sometimes I play good shots, good rallies, and then there is hundreds of mistakes and not a good shot.

My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn't want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.

When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.

I played baseball a little bit and ran some track. I was a catcher at one point and I was at shortstop.

Randy Moss was a fad. People were looking for some way to vote against Peyton Manning.

The old G's, or the gangsters, turned me away from the street because they knew my dad, and they had a lot of respect for my dad, but because I was an athlete.

The blue gear with the red dinosaur is special to me because that's the first gear I wore in NXT.

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

I'm a Georgia guy; we can run.

I played in Germany which is quite a physical league.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.