Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rory McIlroy

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.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

Sonny Vaccaro

LeBron james came, and he gets $10 million a year. There was no stigma or blemish, like you have with one-and-done. Now people say, "He's not a student, he's an athlete." Well, of course he's not a student! He's here for one year and he told you he's here for one year, and the school took him with open arms.

Steve Carlton

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

St. Jerome

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

St. Jerome

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

Sri Chinmoy

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.

Tim Pawlenty

We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.

Tiger Woods

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.

Reggie White

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

Tina Fey

I became immersed in the cult of improvisation. I was like one of those athletes trying to get into the Olympics. It was all about blind focus. I was so sure that I was doing exactly what I'd been put on this earth to do, and I would have done anything to make it onto that stage.

Thomas Jones

Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.

Vin Scully

Good is not good when better is expected.

Vijay Singh

It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

Victor Cruz

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

Usain Bolt

I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

Usain Bolt

I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live.

Stefan Edberg

I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.

Takeru Kobayashi

Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

Steve Lacy

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

Stephen Covey

Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education of the conscience is vital to the truly proactive, highly effective person. Training and educating the conscience, however, requires even greater concentration, more balanced discipline, more consistently honest living. It requires regular feasting on inspiring literature, thinking noble thoughts and, above all, living in harmony with its still small voice.

Stephen Covey

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.

Shawn Johnson

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.

Shaun White

I guess I'm an athlete now. I gotta start going to the gym.

Summer Sanders

Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.

Sun Tzu

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

Ricky Williams

I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.

Ricky Williams

I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

Michael Horton

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

Michael Horton

Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."

Michael B. Jordan

I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

Rafael Nadal

We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.