Greatest Athlete Quotes

#1. I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

Viggo Mortensen

#2. 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.

Will McDonough

#3. I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live.

Usain Bolt

#4. Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#5. I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.

Kobe Bryant

#6. Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

George Steinbrenner

#7. I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

David Cone

#8. Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

Caitlyn Jenner

#9. And that was the whole point of being a covert operative. Welcome to the dark side.

Toni Anderson

#10. What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#11. You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

Deepak Chopra

#12. My mom called me up and said you almost had that one, moms are the greatest, you can't do wrong by your Mom. She blames it on everybody else but me.

Joel Dreessen

#13. I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

Will McDonough

#14. In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.

Marion Jones

#15. The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

Bill Toomey

#16. All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of three minutes, they begged for it and kicked it to the curb. They turned to anybody, even to God, with a perpetual request: Please send me someone to love. But once they got it, love scrambled them.

Rashod Ollison

#17. If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#18. It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides

Ed Ayres

#19. Hey, it's not like we were together for a hundred years or anything." He tapped his fingernail against his teeth and sucked in a breath. "No, wait."
"If you don't knock it off I'm going to kick your ass so hard you'll fart everything you say.

Dana Marie Bell

#20. The greatest athletes in the world play in the NHL there is no question about that.

Joe Bowen

#21. It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much.

Alden Bell

#22. God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

John Milton

#23. Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#24. Sometimes the only way to get rid of an unpleasant feeling is to replace it with another unpleasant feeling.

Chetan Bhagat

#25. The guy is the greatest male athletes of all time.

Serena Williams

#26. I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.

Wayne Gretzky

#27. An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.

Jeff Fenech

#28. I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.

Mariah Carey

#29. We're the greatest athletes in the world without a doubt.

Hulk Hogan

#30. As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.

Sean Bean

#31. As we have seen from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's example, even one justice can profoundly alter the meaning of those words for our citizens. Even one justice can deeply affect the rights and liberties of the American people.

Edward Kennedy

#32. My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

David Rudisha

#33. The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

Douglas Alexander