Top Athlete Quotes

#1. If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant.

Renato Canova

#2. I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.

Paul Stanley

#3. 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

#4. There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.

Lance Armstrong

#5. Philosophy should come to know the dimensions, qualities and quantities of the earth, the depths of the sea, the capacity of fire and the effects and nature of all these things in order to admire, revere and praise the divine artistry and intelligence.

Asclepius

#6. 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

#7. All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

Brendan Foster

#8. There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

Charles Dickens

#9. If they were shocked, then Gregor was no longer responsible.' This passage betray's Gregor's premeditation and points to the idea that Gregor wanted to change into a monstrous vermin- something incapable of working in an office.

Franz Kafka

#10. Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

Joyce Meyer

#11. There were always bullies, but the adults were still in charge. Now? Now the bullies rule. Different game, brother, a whole different game. We play by the bully rules now.

Michael Grant

#12. It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success.

Anthony Famiglietti

#13. When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

Dean Koontz

#14. Art is to see beauty in everything you see everyday.

Prerak Trivedi

#15. You are still despised and mocked,
A man too weak and infirm to be God,
A God too much man to call forth adoration.

Khalil

#16. The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

Norman Cousins

#17. Human beings are liars. I knew that. Which is why I sought the face in death. The face with no forced smile, no performance, no deliberately composed expression.

Otsuichi

#18. None of her spells are planned, but come to her like snatches of poetry or a doodle on a napkin.

Sheri Holman

#19. It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.

Nanette Lepore

#20. In the last year I have gained a lot of experience because I have been playing against top players and realized what things to work on to get better. Top players basically tell you what your weaknesses are on the court.

Maria Sharapova

#21. One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

Jessica Ennis

#22. Learn all the rules ... then break them.

Lea DeLaria

#23. The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

Herb Elliott

#24. My children, if you desire perseverance, be devout to our Blessed Lady.

Philip Neri

#25. What should I do? The person I really like ... I told him not to play with bad people. But he won't listen. Really, what should I do?

Kim Dong-joo

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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