Top 100 Quotes About Athlete
#1. An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.
Andrea Bocelli
#2. You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.
Ryan Lochte
#3. The key to getting the record is running fast because someone else did not take it too crazy at the beginning, so it leaves me with a lot of energy to close.
Bernard Lagat
#4. Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
Michael Diamond
#5. As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.
Oscar De La Hoya
#6. Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
Caitlyn Jenner
#7. The body performs better when the athlete lets it go than when he tries to drive it.
Bruce Lee
#9. Read, read . . . and then read some more. Read everything you can get your hands on! Reading to a writer is as medical school is to a doctor, as physical training is to an athlete, as breathing is to life.
Andrew Joyce
#10. From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story.
Frank Bruno
#11. Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.
Roger Bannister
#12. I love the communication aspect with my athletes. I like the one on one time with my athletes but really its about making them better athletes and finding out what makes them tick.
Robin Farina
#13. I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.
Johnny Weir
#14. If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.
Dominick Cruz
#15. It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.
Vijay Singh
#16. Athlete or not, I'm going to make sure you know how to read.
David Lubar
#17. Being a pro athlete doesn't mean you treat your body right, even though it's so important to what you do. Being a runner and training for important races has taught me more about how to fuel than swimming ever did. I realize it's a process and part of the commitment.
Summer Sanders
#18. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.
David James
#19. For me, it's all about who you are. Some athletes may feel a responsibility. Some may not. One thing I've talked with my family and team about is doing more. Trying to make an impact.
Chris Paul
#20. There is a unique energy surrounding the Boston Marathon that you can't help but feel. It includes every runner and every person along the course. It brings every person there together as one.
Amy Hastings
#21. An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
Cathy Rigby
#22. The conditioning and the lifestyle changes you have to make to remain a healthy athlete are what molded me into what I am today.
John Cena
#23. I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.
Johnny Weir
#24. Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've come to realize that the education I got in college was for life. I will have it forever and for that I am incredibly grateful.
Pat Toomay
#25. I think when young kids can see Jason Collins, myself and Michael Sam, and Abby Wambach and Megan Rapinoe and different athletes come out, it will definitely change and encourage younger gay men and women to play the sport.
Robbie Rogers
#26. It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can't. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.
Billy Kennedy
#27. I struggled to stay on the pace there in the back half. But, at the end of the day I wanted to win this race. The Millrose is a prestigious event and it's definitely something I wanted to do in my career.
Kim Conley
#28. I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.
Rafael Nadal
#29. When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.
Johnny Weir
#30. I always had that desire to become a great athlete.
Lauren Jackson
#31. New Mexico Governor Gary E. Johnson, a Republican and tri-athlete, has stated publicly that "Our present course is not working. Our War on Drugs is a real failure.
James P. Gray
#32. There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.
Chris Brasher
#33. Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
Edwin Moses
#34. There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top.
Tommy Lee
#35. Do your best ... really that's all you can ask for from an athlete.
Jessica Penne
#36. I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.
Katie Aselton
#37. To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.
Rory McIlroy
#38. No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.
Andre Agassi
#39. I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
Mickey Rourke
#40. The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.
Chris Evert
#41. Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.
Ray Lewis
#42. There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.
Jerry Hall
#44. You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.
George Foreman
#45. Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style.
Frank Bruno
#46. Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back ... play for her.
Mia Hamm
#47. The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
Al Pacino
#48. I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and stay in top shape because you know that you're going to be expected to deliver.
Holt McCallany
#49. As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.
Brian Boitano
#50. I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
Carl Lewis
#51. The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.
Cathy Freeman
#52. Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life ... trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.
George A. Sheehan
#53. You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.
Bud Wilkinson
#54. I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
Maria Sharapova
#55. It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
Hannah Kearney
#56. Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.
Dot Richardson
#57. Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.
Kerri Walsh
#58. I like the challenge of getting players to rise to certain levels, but that's the easy part. The biggest challenge is to get them to believe in what we're doing. They have to understand that it's O.K. to have good days and bad days.
Dawn Staley
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man.
Mark Wahlberg
#62. It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
Jesse Owens
#63. About strip clubs and athletes. The best way I can explain why a lot of players end up there is because it's one of the safest places a high-profile person can spend time in a boring city.
Shaquille O'Neal
#65. I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.
Abby Wambach
#66. There are a lot of young great athletes out there; they're much better athletes than what we were. They're bigger, faster, stronger, unfortunately, there're fewer places to go.
George Steele
#67. People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#68. The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
Pat Summitt
#69. The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.
Bud Wilkinson
#70. The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
Andrea Bocelli
#71. When you are public figure, you're an athlete or actor, that is your job to speak out on certain things. I think you speak out on what you desire to speak out on or your passionate about.
Benjamin Watson
#72. The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.
Frank Bruno
#73. It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.
Cathy Rigby
#74. Whether you're a veteran like me or a high school athlete, the most important thing you can do is keep your body healthy.
Jason Terry
#75. There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.
Dale Dauten
#76. I fought, I fought harder ... but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.
Jesse Owens
#77. I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
Usain Bolt
#78. I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
Brian McKnight
#79. Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?
Malcolm Gladwell
#80. I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs.
Willie Carson
#81. Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with.
Rick Pitino
#82. But they've [my children] made me better. They hold me more accountable for who I am and who I aspire to be, and they make me want to be better. And that's not just as a mommy, but as a woman and as an athlete.
Kerri Walsh
#84. I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?'
Emily Ratajkowski
#85. I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.
Bonnie Bassler
#86. I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.
Lisa Guerrero
#87. The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
Gareth Gates
#88. He saw the irresistible allure of high school sports, but he also saw an inevitable danger in adults' living vicariously through their young. And he knew of no candle that burned out more quickly than that of the high school athlete.
H. G. Bissinger
#89. I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.
Johnny Weir
#90. Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck
you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.
Chalene Johnson
#92. We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.
Howard Warren Buffett
#93. When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.
Dhani Jones
#94. I believe that by living as athletes we live more fully.
Gloria Averbuch
#95. The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.
LeBron James
#96. I've always felt I should do things 100 percent or not do them. It's all or nothing. That's what makes me a good athlete - doing things with all the 'ganas' I can.
Sergio Garcia
#97. Alcoholism is a disease," she said. "Like athlete's foot. Or herpes. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Luker and I have lots of friends who are alcoholics. And speed freaks too." "Well,
Michael McDowell
#98. I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.
Libby Trickett
#99. The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.
Yao Ming
#100. I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim
Alec Broers, Baron Broers
