Quotes About Athlete

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

Sports are sometimes unforgiving, and it is what it is. Take my fight with Jacare. I had the flu and I went to the doctor and I had to get nursed back. I didn't train for like 10 days and I fought four or five days later.

When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.

In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the climber free rein to follow his or her passion toward whatever is inspiring. It's a wonderful freedom, in many ways similar to that of an artist who simply lives his life and creates whatever moves him.

My show money in Bellator, I make more than I would have in the UFC winning with the Reebok sponsors and anything else I would have got.

The ability to get sponsors on your own and not have to rely on the amount that Reebok dictates to you was a huge factor. I'd be straight up lying if I said it wasn't a very big part of my decision to go to Bellator.

I think every athlete wants to get sponsored. If you do really well in your sport, then I think sponsorship can help you get rewarded in that sense: doing what you can for your sponsor. It's just another achievement in life.

I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.

My favorite sport is baseball; my cousin is pitcher Heath Bell.

Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

Johnny was an athlete who didn't play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn't think he had it in him to be a professional.

I guess every athlete has in the back of his mind being good at a sport and making it big.

I get called Pink quite a lot. The Pink of the Action Sport World. Or Queen of the Dirt - some call me that.

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.

A female professional athlete has to have the whole package, as opposed to a guy who can just be good at sport. You have to have a job or go to uni or do three sports instead of one, you have to be a standout.

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

I'm a sports fan. I'm not just an athlete who plays football.

For a long time, I thought I'd be a physio if I wasn't a sportsman. At one point, I wanted to be an inventor, and I'd come up with little schemes.

First I'm a sportsman and then a politician.

Besides being a sportsman, I am also a human being.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.