Quotes About Athlete

Even though over the last years I've had more and more success and I've been getting better on the tour, I think I've lived this kind of life as an athlete for many years already.

I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.

I'm a naturally gifted left-footed footballer.

I guess I'm just not the film femme fatale type. I giggle too much. I have freckles and a turned-up nose, and I walk like an athlete.

In my career, I've never seen someone score a goal without shoes.

You're always supposed to follow-up any cross or whatever towards the goalkeeper.

I will have to play as a goalkeeper and sometimes like a centre-back and play with my feet. I like that system and I feel comfortable in it.

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

One girl said when I won my gold that was what inspired her to do boxing. She was only 12, and that is the same age I was when I first started.

My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.

I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

Actually, I'm a very good golfer.

I worked at the golf course, and I always had dreams and aspirations of being a professional golfer.

Am I a golfer? Do I look like a golfer? One hundred per cent, you will find me on the Xbox!

To be a professional golfer in the 21st century, you must be an athlete.

I like the way Luis Suarez plays. When I was growing up, I was a Liverpool fan, and I watched a lot of him when he came to Liverpool. He did a really good job.

I'm just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

Sometimes you watch a tournament with a point system, and it's not the best fighter that wins. It's the guy who scores more points and then he runs away and hides.

I want to be one of those strikers who not only scores goals and wins games, but who works hard for the team.

It's hard to understand the athlete's lifestyle. You literally eat, sleep, train. You go to training camps in the winter where there is no Internet, you can't make phone calls.