Quotes about athlete
athlete winning lessons
It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either. Lynn Davies
athlete skills knowing
It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.
athlete coaches following
It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
athlete boards process
You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.
athlete skills way
If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
athlete play black
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid. Yannick Noah
athlete golf trying
I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. Zach Johnson
athlete finals shots
I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say. Vince Young
athlete thinking cinema
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs. Werner Herzog
athlete pigs levels
Like anybody else, athletes like to pig out on a bit of junk food every now and then, but they also know that they couldn't do that all the time if they wanted to keep their body in peak condition to compete at the highest level. William Katt
athlete missing silence
I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside. William Shatner
athlete hockey nhl
When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete. Wayne Gretzky
athlete done want
I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life. Tyson Gay
athlete men want
Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential. Twyla Tharp
athlete goal ironic
It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate. Sarah Hughes
athlete school hard-work
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. Roger Bannister
athlete athletic three
The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.
athlete years people
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
athlete luxury athletic
Athletics is a luxury.
athlete hard-work simple
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
athlete thinking feelings
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.
athlete records miles
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
athlete race perfect
I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.
athlete race people
I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.
athlete simple race
I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.
athlete school acceptance
My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.
athlete home night
Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.
athlete people want
All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated. Walter Payton
athlete kids role-models
When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
athlete trying failing
I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it. Willie Stargell
athlete actors legs
If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor. William Petersen
athlete greatness numbers
The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel. Zig Ziglar
athlete people
Marketers know that if people you respect - perhaps laughably including entertainers and athletes - say they like a product, you're more likely to buy. Robert J. Shiller