Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rafael Nadal

The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality.

Serena Williams

I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.

Serena Williams

The guy is the greatest male athletes of all time.

Serena Williams

I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.

Serena Williams

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

Michelle Kwan

As an athlete, I've always been very proud to represent the United States.

Michelle Kwan

When I look back at the world championships, I know there's a lot of room for improvement, I'm always up for a challenge. The Olympics, they don't define me, I've had some good and some bad. But it's all about the Olympic experience.

Sebastian Coe

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.

Scott Speedman

I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.

Ray Allen

There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine.

Sloane Crosley

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

Skylar Diggins

I'm not a woman that's an athlete! I'm an athlete!

John Paxson

The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money.

Ted Simmons

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

Theodore Hesburgh

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

Marcus Allen

I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.

Meg Cabot

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

Pat LaFontaine

You can't abuse your body and you need to work hard on your weaknesses. Everyone likes to focus on the things they are good at. But when you focus on the things you are weak at, it makes you a much better athlete.

Plato

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

LeBron James

I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not.

LaVell Edwards

It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well when he returns, he will often play better. If an athlete could play well before he went on a mission, he will definitely play well when he returns; and, if an athlete could not play well before his mission, he probably won't play well when he returns. However, his chances of playing well are perhaps better if he goes because he will return with . . . better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful.

LaVell Edwards

We tend to look at successful athletes and make them almost bigger than life. I have seen many young men who have achieved greatness. I have also seen those who have come up a little short of their potential. I do know that those who succeed have been able to recognize within themselves the potential to do something well and then work hard to prepare themselves for that eventual opportunity. Others wait for the opportunity to come and then start to work, thus coming up a little short.

Lance Berkman

I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great.

Lance Armstrong

I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals

Lance Armstrong

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

Lance Armstrong

What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I've said all along that I will not live as long as the average person.

Lance Armstrong

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

Lance Armstrong

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

Lance Armstrong

Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?

Lance Armstrong

I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.

Nancy Greene

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

Marlen Esparza

As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.

Maria Sharapova

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.