Top Athletes Quotes

#1. When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.

Lindsey Vonn

#2. Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Margaret Fuller

#3. Top athletes are like warriors.

Lily James

#4. My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

Bill Rodgers

#5. Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

Serena Williams

#6. Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.

Robin S. Sharma

#7. It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention.

Jennifer Beals

#8. Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.

Liu Xiang

#9. It's just sexual tension. Hardcore, animalistic, lick his body all over, sexual tension. - Norah

Angela Richardson

#10. I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.

Maurice Sendak

#11. I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

Haile Gebrselassie

#12. The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Tom Peters

#13. I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

Bill James

#14. I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

Manu Bennett

#15. Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Heinz R. Pagels

#16. 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

#17. Life is a journey without plan or destination.
On the way we are preparing to plan and planning to return.

Debasish Mridha

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

Joyce Meyer

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

Brendan Foster

#20. I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

Chris Cleave

#21. Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

Arlen Specter