Famous Quotes & Sayings

Well, it's not 1951. It's not a particularly popular sport. Marketers are very cautious people. They figure, why get into a sport trying to find the unsullied athlete when their first reaction would be to avoid it altogether.

We had turnover within the coaching staff and within the personnel of the team which are negative signs, ... Some of our student athletes were having trouble succeeding academically, which is a bad trend. ... I think this coach will restore a lot of that discipline.

We had to work this year. Last year we had some pretty fast horses and any one of these athletes could win. But this year took more of a strategy, who?s gonna go when, who?s not. We need our best players at the end, but we also need them to be pressure ready.

We have a lot of schools coming out, which means a lot of kids. So far, we have 800 students signed up to compete. It would be great for all those athletes that the cheer squads support all year round to come out and support their spirit squads on Saturday.

We've got seven or eight athletes who can really put the ball in the basket. That's how we can be successful in games. We don't have to rely on just one or two players.

We've got a lot of weapons, to where a lot of teams won't be able to just isolate one or two of our players. When we run the floor, when we get it going, our athletes look pretty tough out there. It's a fun team to watch when they get to running the floor.

Using the training runs is a nice tool to show what the athletes can do on the track.

Wade is probably our best athlete on the perimeter. He did some good things tonight, and Mike Stamps did some good things. We need to find a way to make the bigger plays, because right now we simply aren't getting them.

We have our work cut out for us. We've done this for many years and used to go to Columbus to play bigger programs with a lot Division I athletes and always held our own. We'll see what happens.

We have one month in the fall when all the athletes do is weight train a few times each week.

We haven't used him a lot on kickoffs before, but that may change. He's just a phenomenal athlete and somebody's that's capable of things like that.

We haven't used him a lot on kickoffs before, but that may change, ... He's just a phenomenal athlete and somebody's that's capable of things like that.

You have to define success. The bottom line is an athlete or a person getting back to what he wants to do.

Tim Henman

Winning the tiebreak was crucial and I am pleased to get through. The level of tennis was very high in the first set. He is a great athlete with a great physique and he can hit the ball hard.

Tim Henman

Winning the tiebreak was crucial and I am pleased to get through, ... The level of tennis was very high in the first set. He is a great athlete with a great physique and he can hit the ball hard.

(White) has been on everyone and she's just getting better. She played JV ball last year. She waited her turn, and a lot of athletes don't do that.

When it comes to someone who wants to try and compete in everything, she is someone that is capable of doing that. She might even be as good if not a better athlete than some of our boys.

We are a young team. Our younger athletes need to step up and compete at a high level.

Lori Allen

We have to see out opportunities to use (our talents) to help other people, ... The Miss OSU title will get me in places that maybe being a student athlete won't.

We hope he's OK. You don't wish this on anybody. ... The athletes are very unlucky and this is not funny for Austria. It's very sad that this happened.

We do not believe that Zach Lund is a doper or a drug cheat. An athlete of his character and integrity deserved a better outcome.

Abby Wambach

We're a great team. We can play this game, and we've got a lot of naturally talented athletes who are ready to work to be better.

We expect a difficult time in terms of the environment going in but clearly we've got some great athletes to face those challenges.

We really worked hard tonight to share and distribute the ball. We have a lot of great athletes on this team ... a lot of great characters. And they just keep improving.

We got beat by a pretty good team. Ephrata has some great athletes with a lot of basketball talent.

It doesn't matter what kind of offense a team is running. You have to have enough good athletes to match up. If all a team does is run and you can't stop the run, you are in trouble, and if all a team does is pass and you can't stop the pass, you're in trouble.

I tell my athletes you have to make your own luck. I was a hard worker. I was known as a hard worker and I fell short.

Mary Pierce

I think I'm definitely all-around a better athlete and a competitor, with experience and maturity, ... Mentally I'm stronger.

I think he's one of the greatest athletes who has ever walked the planet.

Pierre Lueders

I think he's the best athlete on the Canadian team and I know how proud he is to represent this country.

I think he has to do everything right, including (Wednesday's) workout, to get in the top 100. He wouldn't be the first guy who looked like a first-round athlete who went in the fourth round.

Linford Christie

It disappoints me that he has not got the recognition he deserves as a coach. He should be out there coaching more athletes on a national basis. If I'm the best sprinter in Britain, then he has to be the best coach.

The athlete who says it can't be done should not get in the way of the one who is doing it.