A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
Frank Shorter

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
Norman Ralph Augustine

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil Zatopek

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

An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
Alberto Salazar

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.
Jim Otto

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
Yannick Noah

As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.
Hidetoshi Nakata

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
Dan O'Brien

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
Michael Diamond

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
Frank Shorter

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
Edwin Moses

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.
Piper Perabo

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Oscar Robertson

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
Vanessa Carlton

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
Bill Shoemaker

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Germaine Greer

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
Bill Russell