Famous Quotes & Sayings

The maturity of Desmond was the first thing I saw when he played this summer. Here is a quality athlete who made major strides as a basketball player.

The meet went well. A number of our athletes had personal bests and we feel like we are right where we need to be at this point of the season.

The medical community has lost some of our credibility in the past when we've made claims that we really didn't have the data to make and used them as quasi-scare tactics. I can remember during my medical education, people saying, 'Well, they don't really help you bulk up,' and that was total nonsense and every athlete knew that.

Mitt Romney

The managers have messed up big time, ... The athletes haven't. Our job is to go to work for the athletes.

Libby Trickett

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

Jon Bon Jovi

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

Johnny Weir

I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.

Johnny Weir

When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

Johnny Weir

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

Johnny Weir

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

Johnny Weir

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.

Johnny Bench

There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.

Lynn Samuels

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

Harvey Mackay

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

The emphasis on Division I athletics director experience automatically puts minorities at a disadvantage. As a result, it is unclear whether the best possible candidates are being considered for top jobs. And we end up with people making decisions who don't reflect the athletes on the playing field or courts.

The Hilton Family is delighted to be a part of America's Olympic efforts, with such a compelling combination of support and sponsorship. We will support our athletes every step of the way on their journey to the Olympic Winter Games, a path that we hope will be paved with gold.

The group that we have going are great athletes and great drivers and the head coach's position is to support them. And as long as they feel supported by Tim, he probably can do a great job there with that group.

The group of athletes that will be joining our team next season will greatly help our program. We are bringing in some good-sized, athletic girls, players that will be able to play inside and out. We are also bringing in two high school point guards to battle for backup time behind Karin Hansen.

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.

Keyshawn Johnson

I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.

Norman Mailer

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.

Norman Ralph Augustine

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

The truly great athletes are those that perform under stress, and with his mom, that fueled his fire. He didn't crack under that. That was the thing I thought was great about him: He always excelled when put in a pressure situation.

These girls have been told for so many years that (Lemon Bay doesn't) have the athletes to compete in track and field. But they proved everybody wrong today.

This is my last swimming meet as a coach, and it's kind of a strange feeling because I've wanted to be a swimming coach since I was 12-years-old, ... The biggest thing I'm going to miss is being a partner with the athletes and living their dreams. I just loved that, and I'm going to miss it a lot. But, I'm closing out this phase of my life, and I'm very excited about where I'm headed.

Keith Scott

This is like the coming-out party for track and field. Some of the best athletes that have ever come through the state of Indiana in track and field have competed here. Just the meet itself is big because it's the North Side Relays.

This is a huge win for the Wildcats. These girls are a very competitive group of young athletes who have tasted victory and hate to lose.

This is a conspiracy involving chemists, coaches and certain athletes using what they developed to be 'undetectable' designer steroids to defraud their fellow competitors and the American and world public who pay to attend sporting events,

All great athletes step up, and she stepped up. She was on tonight. Thank God.

Shannon Brown

A kid that has been blessed with feet like that is going to be on the field, ... It would be hard for any player to come in here midseason and get playing time on the varsity level. You would have to be a tremendous athlete and Larry is a heck of an athlete.

Jerome Bettis

The first year, you're a fish out of water; you have no idea of the offense. Year two, you know the offense, you're comfortable. Now you can see the confidence come out, so now you see an athlete look like a totally different football player because they've got confidence, they're playing with authority and they understand where they need to be. So it's not so much that they get better in terms of talent, but you can see the talent.