Athlete Quotes

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
Michael Jordan

Life, Travel, Basketball

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers

College, Until, Turn

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

Education, Money, America

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
Martha Graham

God, Live, Living

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
Lance Armstrong

Country, Tough, Around

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
LeBron James

Forward, Try, Said

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

Pain, Spiritual, May

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

Dreams, Money, Hope

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

Time, Good, Done

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
Bruce Jenner

Life, Work, Hard

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.
Alanis Morissette

Life, Depression, Once

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.
Alanis Morissette

Human, Rather, Body

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.
Tiger Woods

Yourself, Mean, Belief

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Doubt, Basketball, Put

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Equality, Someone, Trying

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Making, Biggest, Transition

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
Junior Seau

Him, Put, Hockey

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
Dick Gregory

Great, Thought, Wrong

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
Maria Sharapova

I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.
Maria Sharapova

In high school and college, I was an athlete.
David Duchovny

School, College, High

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Al McGuire

Country, Why, Training

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.
Chuck Norris

Time, Made, Become

I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete.
Jessica Ennis

Yourself, Hard, Down

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Great, Live, Brother

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
Ray Lewis

Life, Character, Someone

I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.'
Jessica Simpson

Love, Thought, Interested

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
Carl Lewis

Truth, Amazing, Focus

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

Hurt, Different, Through

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.
Brett Favre

Success, Good, Bad

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