Elite Athlete Quotes

#1. The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

Julia Leigh

#2. When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

Steve Young

#3. Her disposition toward life was that of an elite athlete who knows the opponent is dirty and the refs are on the take, but also knows the championship is one game away.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#4. I'm never satisfied, I always want to do better. That's how it is to be an elite athlete, you're never happy. When you start getting happy and you start feeling satisfied, you're done.

Alexander Gustafsson

#5. By being an elite athlete a lot of people think that you can go away or go places and get away with things. I'm more of the laid-back person. I don't have to go and skip the line. I don't have a problem waiting.

Andre Johnson

#6. Endure, put up with whatever comes your way, learn to overcome weakness and pain, push yourself to breaking point but never cave in. If you don't learn that lesson, you'll never succeed as an elite athlete.

Toni Nadal

#7. 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

Leisel Jones

#8. When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

Dick Fosbury

#9. Professional football's a tough game. It's a lot of contact. It's a lot of wear and tear on your body. You've got elite athletes running into each other, play after play, at high speeds. And this is something that I love and I enjoy.

John Urschel

#10. Phelps, even at a young age, had a capacity for obsessiveness that made him an ideal athlete. Then again, all elite performers are obsessives.

Charles Duhigg

#11. Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.

Lynn Jennings