Famous Quotes & Sayings

Magic Johnson

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

Magic Johnson

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

Major Taylor

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

Major Taylor

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

John Lancaster Spalding

Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

John Kruk

Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer

Jimmy Connors

That's something a lot of athletes miss - a lot of them walk away too soon. They don't get everything out of their system. They have a lot of what-ifs when they're sitting around later in life. I don't have that. I got all that out of my system. I pushed it to the brink, I loved it, and when I walked away, I'd had enough.

Emanuel Steward

I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

Ellie Goulding

I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.

Joe Biden

Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.

Jimmy Hill

They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it.

Jim Thorpe

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

Lolo Jones

A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.

Lolo Jones

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

Manu Bennett

Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

Taylor Branch

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

Ray Lewis

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

Raphael Saadiq

When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.

Randy Castillo

My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

Vera Wang

The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.

Venus Williams

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.

Venus Williams

My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

Robin Yount

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

Robin Cousins

Skating is now retro and hip.

Robin Cousins

Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.

Robin Cousins

I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.

Robin Cousins

I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.

Robin Cousins

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Robin Cousins

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

Ryan Lochte

I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.

Ryan Lochte

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

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.

Thomas Sowell

The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.