Athletes Quotes

Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.
Channing Tatum

Best, Happy, Guys

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
Tom Peters

Work, Same, Top

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Bill Bradley

Great, Sports, Important

Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.
Eric Liu

Today, Career, American

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
Billie Jean King

Women, Men, Last

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
Curt Schilling

Tell, Ask, Player

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.
Neil Peart

Good, Play, Team

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
Angela Merkel

Education, Women, Finance

I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.
Bill Toomey

Read, Fish, System

Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.
Renee Fleming

Time, Today, Feeling

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.
Joe Namath

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
Andy Murray

The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best.
Sasha Cohen

Best, Important, Night

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.
Willie Stargell

Forget, Human, Often

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.
Willie Stargell

Try, Fail, Superior

A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.
Richard D. Zanuck

Become, Matter, Able

Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough.
Junior Seau

Game, Together, Down

Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
Junior Seau

Dreams, Football, Mean

Too many athletes do not admit their weaknesses.
Bill Toomey

Admit, Weaknesses

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.
Bill Toomey

Goal, Ability, Carefully

Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.
Bill Toomey

Help, Themselves, Both

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
Gordie Howe

American, Speak, English

People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.
Bode Miller

Best, Fail, Image

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.
Leigh Steinberg

Football, Able, Few

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.
Leigh Steinberg

Reality, Impossible, Problem

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
Armstrong Williams

Future, Children, Law

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
Armstrong Williams

Great, Human, Give

Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks.
Emmitt Smith

Long, Enough, Ourselves

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
Jack LaLanne

Through, Thought, Able

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.
Mary Lou Retton

Home, Important, Away

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