Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arjun Rampal

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

Dick Ebersol

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.

Dick Butkus

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

Earl Campbell

I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.

Edwin Moses

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

Edwin Land

When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it before. It may be a backhand he uses, one that he may never have used before in that circumstance. His play is a fresh integration of his world at the instant of action. A really great scientist has the whole past at his disposal. At any instant he is rebuilding the world, molecule by molecule, in his subconscious. That is what you want in an athlete or a scientist.

Edoardo Ponti

Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

Bobby Orr

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

Arthur Lydiard

My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain.

Arthur Ashe

Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.

Ben Cross

I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.

Cara Castronuova

My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.

Elgin Baylor

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

Asafa Powell

Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts.

When he came here, he was a big-time athlete. He was a better athlete than a basketball player, really. ... But he's become a lot better offensive player.

When Gary Neal first contacted us, I told him I'd never take an athlete under those circumstances. He's totally on his own, and we left it up to him. He enrolled The provision was that he'd have to pay his own way for one semester, and he's done a great job.

Nancy Gibbs

On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

Nancy Gibbs

As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

LZ Granderson

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

Ciara

I have so much respect for athletes like LeBron James. I get motivation from them because I know how many hours they put into it. It takes a lot of hard work and drive.

We played a pretty good game. We played consistent, and we did a great job shooting. Hughes Springs has some great athletes on their team, but we came out ready to play and we led the whole way.

David Pelletier

We probably have a different viewpoint. But the one thing we have in common is that we were all athletes being thrown into this mess together.

Matt Cooke

We pretty much have an open invitation to any athlete that would like to try it, free of charge.

We pledge to do our best to win medals while making efforts to deepen exchanges with athletes of other countries and contribute to world peace.

Alberto Juantorena

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

Alberto Juantorena

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

Alberto Juantorena

I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.

Alberto Salazar

I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

Leon Washington

When you are dealing with young men, period, you're going to make mistakes and you're going to have guys get injured. Our job as seniors and as coaches is to prepare the young guys that we have to step up. I think we have the athletes to get it done.

Adolf Hitler

Give me an athlete and I'll give you an army.

Bill James

We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the word 'need.' We like to have new games every day, and, if we are to have a constant and endless flow of games, we need a constant flow of athletes.

Boris Becker

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.