Quotes About An Athlete

#1. There are three things an athlete must do. You must be in physical condition ... You must execute properly and quickly the fundamentals ... and you must have eagerness to sacrifice personal interests or glory for the welfare of the team.

John Wooden

#2. The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

Irving Stone

#3. I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.

Bernie Mac

#4. I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.

Chris Pratt

#5. I have kids. Unbeknownst to them, they are quick to snap me back to reality when I start feeling the pressure of being an athlete! It's a breath of fresh air to have two people to focus on; their happiness erases all the pressures I have on myself.

Amanda Beard

#6. I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.

Jason Mraz

#7. An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.

Dwyane Wade

#8. I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.

Alan Chadwick

#9. I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

Matt Kemp

#10. I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

Billie Jean King

#11. I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

John Kruk

#12. As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.

Marlen Esparza

#13. I was an aesthete rather than an athlete, and my only wish was to be an ecstatic wanderer.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#14. I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the only thing I've ever thought of really my whole life, and music came into my life actually in '99, playing and singing. It's definitely been the only hobby I've had that I can't put down.

Bronson Arroyo

#15. Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

George A. Sheehan

#16. As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.

Tony Romo

#17. I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

Tiger Woods

#18. People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

Abby Wambach

#19. If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

Bill Parcells

#20. On days when I do not work, I am working on my image. I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Linda Evangelista

#21. As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

Michael Strahan

#22. I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

Bobby Knight

#23. Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

John Lancaster Spalding

#24. I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

Michael B. Jordan

#25. I'm an athlete, but I'm not a runner. I'm 5-foot-8 and stocky - not exactly a runner's type.

Andrew Lawrence

#26. Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

Chevy Chase

#27. Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

Bobby Cannavale

#28. I'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do.

Marion Jones

#29. Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

Mariah Burton Nelson

#30. There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Tony Robbins

#31. Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

Justin Timberlake

#32. I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.

Major Taylor

#33. Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

John Leguizamo

#34. What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

Condoleezza Rice

#35. To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

Shawn Johnson

#36. I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.

Ronda Rousey

#37. Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

Linford Christie

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

Curt Schilling

#39. There's mornings when my body aches or my mind is just not with it. But that's part of being an athlete and accomplishing a goal that seems unattainable. You have to find your motivation, what inspires you.

Jonathan Horton

#40. Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer

John Kruk

#41. One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

Lance Armstrong

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

Zach Johnson

#43. I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.

Scott Speedman

#44. I've always approached my career and my life, you know, one day at a time, as if this was the last day that I'm going, because you never know as an athlete and as a dancer. You never know what can happen today, tomorrow.

Misty Copeland

#45. I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

Mark Wahlberg

#46. 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.

Zach Johnson

#47. In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

Scott Avett

#48. Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.

Lindsey Vonn

#49. Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime.

Stanley Hauerwas

#50. As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

Magic Johnson

#51. I'm never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons - I'm not that person.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#52. An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#53. An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.

Alberto Salazar

#54. Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what you're the fastest.

Chris Rock

#55. Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.

Uriah Hall

#56. If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!

Eve Arden

#57. Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

Lara Spencer

#58. If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.

Troy Polamalu

#59. When you're as small as I am, people don't expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

Daniel Rodriguez

#60. He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

Plato

#61. As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

Michael Chang

#62. I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

Johnny Weir

#63. I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

Alanis Morissette

#64. When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a liar.

Gordon Pirie

#65. I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.

Ted Ligety

#66. As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.

Michael Johnson

#67. To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.

Zach Johnson

#68. I guess I'm an athlete now. I gotta start going to the gym.

Shaun White

#69. Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#70. If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

Paavo Nurmi

#71. I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.

Arjun Rampal

#72. There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete.

Lolo Jones

#73. I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

Maggie Q

#74. I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.

Shaquille O'Neal

#75. It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

Roger Bannister

#76. An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.

Luke Scott

#77. For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.

Giancarlo Esposito

#78. I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.

Artie Lange

#79. Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

Michael Diamond

#80. You are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.

Rosemary Rawlins

#81. When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#82. I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.

David Nalbandian

#83. Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.

Moses Malone

#84. I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.

Venus Williams

#85. I'm excited to work with SCARPA because it's opened up a whole new playground to me as an athlete.

Lynsey Dyer

#86. I'm not an athlete dater, really. I would get too jealous. They're really gone all the time. Different hotel rooms.

Christine Teigen

#87. Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.

Don Yaeger

#88. Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream
of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete
lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs,

Glenn Kurtz

#89. A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#90. I work with a trainer called Ruben Tabares. He's a nutritionist, strength and conditioning coach, and an athlete. So I literally just train like an athlete.

Tinie Tempah

#91. When you grow up in life and you're poor, and because you're an athlete or you got rich overnight in music, unless you have access to financial advice or for the transition or matriculation of that process, then of course, you're going to go broke.

Steve Stoute

#92. I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.

Lou Brock

#93. Everybody doesn't get to do each and every film. I don't compete with others; I compete with myself. I have been an athlete, a sportsperson; so I know how to be competitive in a healthy way.

Deepika Padukone

#94. There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;

Norman Vincent Peale

#95. I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an athlete is and to challenge themselves in the same way, to the same physical degree.

Twyla Tharp

#96. So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

Stedman Graham

#97. I was an athlete when I was growing up.

Jeremy Renner

#98. The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world.

Sasha Cohen

#99. An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

Major Taylor

#100. I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee