Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had a fantastic year last year and our graduating seniors are certainly going to be missed. But we've got some tremendous athletes on this team and it's just going to be a process of getting them stronger.

Mats Sundin

We had a bad game. We had a terrible game. If we want to have a chance to go to the semifinals, we have to be better than we were tonight. We're professional athletes and we want to give the best. We're always going to give 110 percent. There's been no talk about anything else in our dressing room.

We got into some foul trouble late in the game. Cuero has a lot of athletes and you have to play them better than that.

Trying to perform at peak levels day after day on a travel or high school team can exert excessive strain on growing bones, muscles and tendons. This can have a negative impact on overall performance and enjoyment of the sport if injuries in young athletes are not treated properly.

Brian O'Driscoll

I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.

Johnny Weir

The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.

With Brad van Hoff in center, if the ball goes up, it's pretty much caught out there. The kid can run. Charlie Carter's one of the best athletes I've seen around here at Eastside, as far as all-around baseball players. He can do it all.

With athletes like this they always make things look easier than they really are. Then you watch him in the outfield. ... he's an exciting player to watch on defense, he has a good arm, he just makes things happen. Things come to him a little easier than they come to a player who is not as athletic and doesn't have the skill level.

With athletes like Dave Mirra in the competition I couldn't just sit back, I had to go for it. It was a rough start to the season, I'm happy to finally have my first win on the Tour.

Chris Pratt

I was an athlete growing up and I miss that. I miss hanging out with dudes and making raunchy jokes and telling stories, trading details, you know? There's something I really miss about that.

Don Kardong

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

Charlie Kimball

The typical response from people when I tell them I'm diabetic is, 'Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.' You know, I'm not. I'm a better athlete because of diabetes rather than despite it. I'm more aware of my training, my fitness and more aware of nutrition. I'm more proactive about my health.

Charlie Pierce

If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.

Summer Sanders

I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.

Summer Sanders

Being a pro athlete doesn't mean you treat your body right, even though it's so important to what you do. Being a runner and training for important races has taught me more about how to fuel than swimming ever did. I realize it's a process and part of the commitment.

When practice comes, they both come every day to play and work at getting better. When you're a star athlete like they are, you wouldn't expect that from them. But that's what gets them where they are.

But she's such a phenomenal athlete that she plays much bigger than that. She plays like she's 6-4 or 6-5.

Both skiers were on edge and had small form breaks. ... The two athletes and the crowd waited in suspense to see who the judges would advance.

Scott Erickson

Both return many fine athletes off their playoff teams a year ago.

Both options are there for the athlete. But we just like for athletes to discuss the future of the program with the new coaches.

We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athletes that you get now just want to play. It has to be taught and instilled in them. That's basically what we had to do with this group. They're just now getting the concept of what it takes to win.

We have the athletes that can bang the shots. We just have to get more confident and we'll be alright.

We were still a little rusty, and with only a week's worth of practice, the timing and technique of some of the athletes was a little off. The running events went real well.

Today was a really hot day and Tyrone is a really tough course, so I'm real proud of our athletes the way they were able to compete under those conditions.

Tristan's always been a great athlete who can create a lot of scoring opportunities with his athleticism, but he's really improved the way he shoots the ball from the perimeter. If you lay off of him he can hit those jump shots from the outside. If you come out to guard him, he can go around you.

Trinity has great female athletes and LaGrange is very tough if they play to their potential. I think our team's success has come one game at a time.

Tricia commands the greatest respect at a national and international level in sport due to her vast experience and knowledge. She is widely respected as a loyal champion for athletes because she always places their needs first.

Flip Saunders

Those guys, they play hard no matter what the score is. They've got a lot of athletes and they keep on trying hard to come at you.

When I first came here, the wheelchair racing program was really in its fledgling stages, but by the time I left, we were a strong team with athletes from around the country and had begun to receive more support from the university. I continue to hear of both the success and struggles of the team and it makes me miss having such a strong community of athletes with disabilities all in one place.

We need to find athletes who are determined to play as a team and have positive attitudes. Hopefully these guys can see what we're trying to do.

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

It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.