Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's a real quiet, unassuming kid. He's very humble. I've had a lot of athletes and some of them, when they are in Dar'veon's position, they get a little full of themselves. He's certainly not one of them. He's a confident athlete.

He?s a very graceful athlete. Not too many athletes can get their body to flow and bend in that manner. It was a big-time athletic movement.

His 'Take the Field' program was one of the most innovative and beautiful efforts in athletics in this country, ... His efforts provide fields of play for young New York athletes who otherwise would have no place to play.

His wife works at Goshen College. Here is a guy who has trained national track athletes in Bulgaria and he kind of fell right into our lap.

Jake always trains hard. He trained hard in high school and trained hard as a freshman. He just has a lot of belief in himself. He had a really good indoor season and I think it carries over. Sometimes athletes just get on a roll. He's in a zone. That's just the way it is for him right now and it's just working.

I would say there are several players coming off of last weekend that should be feeling confident. Confidence is a choice, and that's a matter of being able to block the distractions. Everybody has a poor performance. The better athletes know where to place that, learn from it and move on.

Just like athletes in other sports, race-related injuries happen and are easier to understand. Injuries like this are tough to handle.

Keeping up with your schoolwork is difficult, but coach does a good job of keeping us on task and all the kids here are well-rounded. Good students, good athletes stand up to the challenge.

I think it really opened the door for black athletes at the time.

Phil Niekro

I think it just shows you how many great athletes and their great achievements we have here in Northeast Georgia.

It came down to those last two athletes to do their job the best they could and both Stephanie and Meredith really came through in the clutch.

I think it's especially important he focused on young athletes and that cheating by star athletes sends the wrong message,

Roy Williams

I think it's embarrassing, ... especially when you're an NFL football team full of professional athletes getting blown out -- which it was. I mean, let's call it what it was: a blowout.

I think it's case of Penn State not focusing on the right kids. You don't see them often bringing in superior skill athletes from outside the state.

Kamerion Wimbley

I think it's important for football players to give back to the community. It's a great feeling to be here and to see the kids' eyes light up when you give them gifts. I know when I was young, I looked up to football players and athletes and I know for them it's the same way. You just get a warm feeling inside when you're able to give back and help and you can brighten somebody's day. It's definitely a positive.

Ernie Kent

It certainly inspired African-Americans in college basketball and everything else. I don't want to say it opened up the door, but it certainly was a bridge to recruiting athletes of color. It definitely revolutionized the game.

It comes down to who wants it more. It doesn't matter who has the better athletes or stick skills.

Pat Riley

He might get 100. If you can get 81 . . . absolutely. He has the mentality to do that and conditioning. He's one of the best conditioned athletes in the world.

We expect to leave an excellent impression on the athletes and guests from all over the world and billions of TV audiences by staging a fantastic opening ceremony of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Whatever personal feelings there are shouldn't get in the way of putting out the best athletes we can,

We're on the upswing, and we have a lot of good athletes in the program. On the line we have a lot of experience, and we have some good skill players as well.

Salman Khurshid

What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

We take it seriously. It's our responsibility to help athletes in a performing role to respect our country.

We thought we would have a pretty good chance to win the meet. We have a lot of quality athletes on both the boys and girls teams.

We are extremely pleased to have both these athletes on board. They both bring their own unique style to the football club and prove each and every day that they are outstanding individuals both on and off the football field.

We can confirm that there have been three anti-doping rule violations all of which come from the two athletes already identified.

George Vecsey

Hundreds of ballplayers have performed well after Tommy John surgery, in which an elbow ligament is replaced by material from elsewhere on the body. More and more, athletes will perform with a bit of this or a bit of that in a joint or muscle.

He was one of the most gifted athletes since I've been here.

He was respected by athletes he covered, by coaches he worked with and by everyone in the sports media. He befriended everyone. We've lost a real character who will always be in the folklore of sports journalism in New Mexico.

He's part of the Nike group of athletes that endorse our product. There's been no change. Our relationship with Kobe has remained intact.

He did it, and he never complained once. He also stays here to train during the holidays while most athletes choose to go home. He knows what he has to do to be great, and he's happy to do it.

He is there for a reason. He is going to make some throws and he has some athletes out there who can catch the ball.

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.