Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have one month in the fall when all the athletes do is weight train a few times each week.

We expect a difficult time in terms of the environment going in but clearly we've got some great athletes to face those challenges.

We really worked hard tonight to share and distribute the ball. We have a lot of great athletes on this team ... a lot of great characters. And they just keep improving.

We got beat by a pretty good team. Ephrata has some great athletes with a lot of basketball talent.

It doesn't matter what kind of offense a team is running. You have to have enough good athletes to match up. If all a team does is run and you can't stop the run, you are in trouble, and if all a team does is pass and you can't stop the pass, you're in trouble.

I tell my athletes you have to make your own luck. I was a hard worker. I was known as a hard worker and I fell short.

I think he's one of the greatest athletes who has ever walked the planet.

Linford Christie

It disappoints me that he has not got the recognition he deserves as a coach. He should be out there coaching more athletes on a national basis. If I'm the best sprinter in Britain, then he has to be the best coach.

John Smith if one of the most unbelievable athletes and competitor I've ever been around and played with. He's amazing.

(White) has been on everyone and she's just getting better. She played JV ball last year. She waited her turn, and a lot of athletes don't do that.

We are a young team. Our younger athletes need to step up and compete at a high level.

We hope he's OK. You don't wish this on anybody. ... The athletes are very unlucky and this is not funny for Austria. It's very sad that this happened.

Our team has a lot of athletes that can make plays. We scored a lot of points in transition off steals. I was really proud of our defensive effort. This team has taken pride in holding teams down defensively.

Our strategy going forward is to reinvent our team. We've got some great athletes that will bring size, basketball I.Q. and real excitement.

We have a lot of athletes walking the halls right now. The reasons they aren't playing are numerous. Some don't play strictly because they don't dedicate the time to get their grades. That comes first with me because that's their future. Eligibility requirements have gotten tougher.

We have two outstanding coaches who will lead our team to success in an exciting and challenging competition. This meet will be a significant test for our team. Not only are we are facing our biggest rivals in their backyard, but this is also the last opportunity these athletes have to test themselves on a major international stage before the Beijing Olympics.

We know they have good athletes at Bellows Falls and we tried to keep them with the ball on the left side of the court. They go to the right well.

Hannah Kearney

On television, I have watched countless athletes from different countries, sports and Olympics stand proudly at the top of the podium and shed tears. They symbolized the Olympics for me because Olympic medals represent all of the hard work and sacrifices made by the athletes as well as the people who helped them reach the top of their sports.

We got to meet and hang out with all the United States athletes because we all stayed at the same dorm. We got to know guys like Greg Louganis, Carl Lewis and Riddick Bowe, plus athletes from all over the world. It was fantastic experience.

We get to hang out with some of the other athletes in the lounge. We talk to them and find out about their sports. It's good getting to know them and their experience.

We get a couple of days at the Athletes Village at the start and a few days after the curling, so it should be an enjoyable time.

Dan Goodwin

We have an obligation to spend this money, whatever it takes, so we can have a fair and open forum for our athletes and coaches to air their grievances. Will it set the program back? Who knows? But it's what we have to do.

We had turnover within the coaching staff and within the personnel of the team which are negative signs, ... Some of our student athletes were having trouble succeeding academically, which is a bad trend. ... I think this coach will restore a lot of that discipline.

We've got a lot of weapons, to where a lot of teams won't be able to just isolate one or two of our players. When we run the floor, when we get it going, our athletes look pretty tough out there. It's a fun team to watch when they get to running the floor.

We've done all right in the first three. Now we hope to finish strong. I don't care what the sport is, tournament atmosphere is great. It's fun to be around athletes competing at a high level. Some of their energy rubs off on you as you go through the weekend.

Pete Rose

I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress.

We've just about seen everything that people can do. The key fact is we have good athletes and we can make adjustments, and they will do it on the floor.

Without that, they would have very few sponsors, ... It's key to those sponsors and that's why those sports and those athletes are getting the money.

We have many athletes in their first year of track. So, we need to continue to develop our large group of younger athletes. We also need to develop more depth in the throwing events.

When we start getting athletes suspended based on what somebody said, you see what gate that opens up. This does not make sense, especially based on what somebody said and that somebody said she had a sleeping disorder from childhood, tested positive at the world championships, and then came back and said something (else).

We will have some of the legacy athletes there jumping for the anniversary.

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