Top Athlete Quotes Collection
Discover a curated collection of Athlete quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.
Marketers know that if people you respect - perhaps laughably including entertainers and athletes - say they like a product, you're more likely to buy.Collection: Athlete
For a generation that gets most of its information off a computer screen (be it Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or what have you), an athlete has to be very careful about the public/private aspect of that. Be careful not to be overly critical, be careful with use of language, and understand the whole world is watching.Collection: Athlete
He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.Collection: Athlete
I think imperfection is beauty. Instead of being insecure about my muscles, I've learned to love them. I don't even think of it as a flaw anymore because it's made me into the athlete that I am.Collection: Athlete
I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.Collection: Athlete
I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use and ballet is something I really respect.Collection: Athlete
I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.Collection: Athlete
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.Collection: Athlete
We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.Collection: Athlete
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.Collection: Athlete
Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.Collection: Athlete
When I finished the Boston race in 1967, there were two things I wanted to do. I wanted to become a better athlete because my first marathon was 4:20. In those days, that was considered a jogging time and I knew people were going to tease me. But I was more fascinated with what women could do if they only had the chance.Collection: Athlete
I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.Collection: Athlete
We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.Collection: Athlete
By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.Collection: Athlete
Athlete or not, I’m going to make sure you know how to read.Collection: Athlete
An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.Collection: Athlete
I think every athlete that’s just out here for the Olympics just does something to inspire those around them and inspire each other.Collection: Athlete
Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.Collection: Athlete
Doing your best is more important than being the best.Collection: Athlete
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.Collection: Athlete
The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.Collection: Athlete
The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.Collection: Athlete
I don't know if anything can really prepare you for 'Survivor,' but since I grew up as an athlete, the physical aspect came to me more easily.Collection: Athlete
As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's very gratifying.Collection: Athlete
When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.Collection: Athlete
The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.Collection: Athlete
The press still considers me one of the most laid-back athletes since Babe Ruth. That's supposed to be a criticism, but I consider it a compliment because I think being carefree on the course is one of the secrets to scoring well consistentlyCollection: Athlete
If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.Collection: Athlete
I don't mind being a professional. As an athlete you are a role model, people are watching what you wear, listening to everything you say.Collection: Athlete
Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice.Collection: Athlete
All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.Collection: Athlete
Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.Collection: Athlete
Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.Collection: Athlete
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.Collection: Athlete
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.Collection: Athlete
My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing.Collection: Athlete
Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.Collection: Athlete
We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.Collection: Athlete
I love it. I love the challenge of it, working with kids every day, setting goals for myself and the program. I feel it was what I was meant to do. You remember your own experiences, and you want to do it for someone else.Collection: Athlete
A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.Collection: Athlete
It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.Collection: Athlete
If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.Collection: Athlete
Being a runner, professional or recreational, means that you are part of a community that stretches across the globe.Collection: Athlete
(About events he will take part in) I vaulted today, and I'll throw the discus tomorrow around one o' clock. Then I'll race in the 100-meter final at 3:45 on Saturday.Collection: Athlete
As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves.Collection: Athlete
The way to stay popular as a quarterback in the NFL is never to play.Collection: Athlete
The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.Collection: Athlete
Want to become a champion? Then build your successes on a solid foundation of failure!Collection: Athlete
Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at thatCollection: Athlete