Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shannon Miller

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

Pele

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.

Peter Sagal

We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

Piper Perabo

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

Plato

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

Kobe Bryant

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

Kevin James

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

Kendrick Lamar

Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.

You don?t have to choose between being an elite athlete and being a student.

Kevin Spacey

It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

Jim Tressel

You can?t give back to the past, but you can certainly build to the future and show you?re grateful for what was provided for you when you were here. Mike is that kind of guy and Jen was an athlete here, as well, and they feel strongly about Ohio State athletics.

You can only do the best you can. We set the benchmark and everyone is trying to catch up with us. Athletes are treated with respect and professionalism. Nobody does it like Wheeling does. Wheeling is a great place to live.

Renaldo Nehemiah

The lure of money is greater than ever. The minute they run a fast time, everyone's whispering in their ear, telling them they ought to go pro. And every athlete wants to do it.

Steve Spurrier

Their athletes look faster, quicker than in the past, ... Certainly, (they're) a well-coached bunch of guys and they all play hard. You don't see guys loafing around and dodging tackles. They play all out. We've got to play our best to beat these guys this week.

Their athletes are a little faster than our athletes. I don't think their kids gave any more effort than our kids. Darius is our speed, and when he went out, we didn't have that capability.

Tom Allen

Their offense is very impressive and very explosive. We've got to find a way to slow them down. They're going to get some points on you because they've got too many good athletes and too good a scheme.

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.

James Joyce

There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

James Roday

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

Sidney Crosby

I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous.

Natalie Gulbis

I see myself as an athlete and just try to market myself as a feminine athlete.

Tony Romo

As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.

Tony Robbins

I can't give other people what I've not experienced to some extent myself. It sharpens your game and also, like any athlete, you're more fit because you have to be. You're getting ready because you have a reason to.