Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are excited to work together with NBC Universal on such a landmark event showcasing world-class athletes who have realized their dreams and continue to inspire and foster community through their sports.

We are excited to be part of this outstanding group of athletes who understand that the energy that comes from a protein-rich, well-balanced diet enables them to perform their best. Protein, as part of a meal, increases power and strength. This partnership allows us to communicate the importance of protein and nutrition to millions of Americans in an exciting way.

We are excited about Rashad joining our team for the season. He is a marvelous athlete and we look forward to him bringing the same as an integral part of our coaching staff.

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.

There are a lot of talented athletes in this region. There's a lot of competition. Talent doesn't always mean you will be successful, but you have a chance to compete.

Flip Saunders

When you have other athletes (in the arena), you want to go out and you want to perform. I'm sure that got them juiced up a little bit.

Michelle Smith

There are 15,000 athletes and all have trained their entire lives for this event and want the Games to go on. Security around the athletes is just incredible at the moment.

Julie Murphy

We were surrounded by great athletes from around the country and got to take part in the opening ceremony with athletes from all over the world.

Kyle Whittingham

We've got to get every athlete in the program bigger, faster and stronger between now and August. We've got to have a heck of a summer conditioning program.

John Jones

We've got the potential, we've got the talent on this team. It's just getting people to believe in themselves and getting the 14 best athletes in our lineup.

We've just about seen everything that people can do. The key fact is we have good athletes and we can make adjustments, and they will do it on the floor.

With everyone back, our goals are high. Qualifying for the state tournament is our goal. Every high school athlete should have that as a goal.

Without that, they would have very few sponsors, ... It's key to those sponsors and that's why those sports and those athletes are getting the money.

With the athletes and the type of quarterback we have, we can go from the passing game to the running game, to the quarterback running the ball.

With sports cards, you can see that athlete on TV, but you can't play with them.

We have many athletes in their first year of track. So, we need to continue to develop our large group of younger athletes. We also need to develop more depth in the throwing events.

When we start getting athletes suspended based on what somebody said, you see what gate that opens up. This does not make sense, especially based on what somebody said and that somebody said she had a sleeping disorder from childhood, tested positive at the world championships, and then came back and said something (else).

We will look to Erin to step in and be our number one keeper. She's a great athlete with good size and good hands. Goalkeeper can be a difficult position for a freshman to step in and play right away, but we really think she can do it.

We will have some of the legacy athletes there jumping for the anniversary.

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.

John Brady

Tyrus is a tremendous athlete who we need back.

We don't look at her like she's a pro athlete coming in. It's more of a Connie Moore's coming in, we'll see her, and when the track meet's over we'll go hang out with her type of thing.

We have grants for athletes and that reaches through to 300 athletes now in New Zealand - that's a huge step forward for us.

We wanted to do what we could to help. We'll treat your athletes just like they were our own.

We've had the most positive interaction between the young athletes and the World Cup group that we've ever had.

We've had a tradition carrying it. We wanted to maintain that. Also, many of these athletes are going to head to Beijing in 2008 and we'll be doing those Olympics as well.

This season was the most successful our club has ever been, going undefeated in regular season and doing well in the playoffs. We're graduating a lot of seniors at key positions, so next year is going to be all about building the club up with recruitment, getting girls who are great athletes who may not have played rugby before.

We all know how crucial the crowd is when the judges are down on the floor and somebody does a routine and 10,000 fans scream and react to it. It's hard for everyone to not get caught up in that. Everyone builds on that and the athletes feed on that. It really is an advantage.

We've come a long way. As a woman I'm proud. As the mother of three girls, I'm proud. In 1984 when I was competing, not many girls did a lot of sports. In my hometown there weren't many female athletes training 35 hours a week. Today it's just natural.

Those (144) athletes are expected to take part in the intensified national training program starting Jan. 17.