Famous Quotes & Sayings

During the last three weeks ... we should have been reading and hearing about the remarkable stories of athletes attempting to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Team in the sport of skeleton. We have instead heard about serious allegations of misconduct. This story has taken a great deal of attention away from the athletes.

John Sullivan

Dee is the best athlete on the team and he has great speed.

Compared with the ninth national games, we will have 20 percent more tests this time. The athletes who are tested positive will be disqualified from the games and they will be banned for two years after their B samples are confirmed positive,

Coaches are trying to take the big guys away from the game with zone defenses. That's why athletes are more balanced now. There's a lot of guys that can beat you off the dribble, step outside if they need to and make things happen.

Companies that want athletes to use their products pay us to participate in the program, which allows us to test their products and audit their manufacturing process.

Coming out of high school (Purnell Swett), we recruited Darryl as an athlete. We'll recruit a quarterback or corner for a position, but in Division II you just try to get the best athletes you can and then trust the coaches get them in the right place.

Darren Pang

Despite what people and coaches think, that athletes can always put distractions on the side, they can't. Players need to know in a black and white form what's going on.

Jacques Rogge

Denis brings a unique combination of skills and experience, as a medal-winning, three-time Olympic athlete and a sports leader with nearly 30 years of experience organizing international competitions of the highest level,

Lloyd Carr

Antonio is a great athlete and a guy who has tremendous upside. He had a wonderful freshman year if you consider some of the nagging injuries he had. Yes, it will be a significant loss if we lose him.

Anti-doping procedures are being done fully within the rules. Notification to the athletes is being done by anti-doping control officers. They are identified and identifiable.

A positive doping test does not constitute the sole basis for a doping violation. There are other types of anti-doping rule violations, such as the mere possession of doping substances. We don't know yet whether these athletes or coaches have been in possession. That is for the Italian authorities to inform us about.

Bobby Scott

Some young athletes are using the drugs with the belief that they can become great in their sport and gain money and fame.

Some years are smaller and some are larger. I don't have an explanation for that. They're like athletes - some classes are just a little sharper than others.

Sometimes that's a nebulous thing, too, because it may be just a mark that's submitted based upon what (an athlete has) done thus far and some people get in an A section based upon what they did last year and not where they are this year.

Some people say our athletes are isolated and besieged. Whoever wants to go into exile can just walk away or stand next to a policeman. Our players are not prisoners. Simply, our athletes are besieged because people want to turn them into merchandise. But they want to play for their country. They want to continue to play for the love of their flag ... They're not interested in millions. Whoever wants to leave can leave in peace. We all play without thinking about money.

Sometimes, kids have to make choices. A talented athlete that's also in the band, they have to make choices. I'm not trying to be trite. It's a fact of life.

Roy is a model athlete as far as this organization is concerned.

Ryan is a very hard tackler, and he comes with a great soccer pedigree. Josh has been a three-sport athlete and I think he's really going to excel in college as he focuses on soccer. Collin loves to get forward and is a very proficient passer. Tracy is an explosive player who is extremely tricky on the ball.

Same script, different cast, ... very legitimate. We have athletes at every position.

Savannah is a natural athlete who possesses great physical strength and quickness. She is very offensively minded and we look forward to having her join our attack next season.

Jack Warner

Quite a few of our athletes will be off this weekend, getting rested and ready for next weekend's Big Ten meets. This meet should be pretty low key, but it will offer us a chance for final preparations and tune ups for Big Tens. Those athletes who need to rest will rest and those who need fine tuning will have an opportunity to do that as well.

Rachel just has a no-nonsense attitude. She always comes to practice, and always wants to get better. She hates losing, which is something I love in a player. She's a very good athlete with a good arm, and you can tell she is only going to get better as she gets more mature.

At the end of the day, the athletes have trained to their best. Nothing should get in their way.

At this level, we're mainly competing to get personal bests. We stress personal bests and it's really what our athletes are searching for at these events. These kids are just always trying to improve and the states are a nice reward and the New England championships are another nice reward.

Commitment. I know what it takes for athletes to be successful at this high a level. I went, sometimes during my career, four month without a day off. If you love what you are doing, being committed is really not that difficult.

Coston knows he's not the best athlete around and he'll tell you that. But he busts his tail every day in practice and gives you everything he's got in games. He's had a great year.

(Costa) reminds me a lot of Kellen Clemens in that he played safety and quarterback, was one of the toughest, one of the fastest and one of the best athletes on the field. And he is a great leader.

Down the road, you are going to see a lot more wheelchair athletes come out. Maybe they felt uncomfortable before, but now that it's being exposed we may see more of them.

Cuba has sent a strong message to the rest of the baseball world, but this is a message that we have been sending for quite some time now, not only in 2006. Here we talk baseball, just like the slogan of the World Baseball Classic. And baseball is baseball, it doesn't matter the price paid to the athletes that play it.

And the rivalry has pushed us on to new heights, ... Great athletes in the past have always been part of a great rivalry.

Another American Revolution has begun. It began here in Boston, and we'll see more of these American athletes in the future.

Eliza has a ton of potential. She is still a little raw but is very fast and athletic. Eliza is a player who you like more and more each time you see her. She is someone we always knew had the ability, but she will continue to improve. I believe the sky is the limit for her. She's an athlete that has split time between track and soccer, and when she gets the chance to have all the eggs in one basket at Memphis, she will continue to excel.

There's definitely a difference between just having 15 athletes as opposed to one team. That's kind of what we count on because we're not the best athletes. We sure as hell aren't the biggest, fastest people around.