Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Holder

This isn't just about football or basketball or our major sports. It's about every sport, giving every coach here and every athlete here the opportunity to strive for excellence.

This isn't just about core runners. This is about all athletes of all levels of competition and shapes and sizes. Running is the most diplomatic of all activities.

The U.S. Ski Team Day will provide an outstanding opportunity for skiers to celebrate our sport during the Olympic period and to help the athletes of the U.S. Ski Team to be 'Best in the World' in 2006.

The United States Olympic Committee is pleased to work with Visa to provide the U.S. delegation of athletes, coaches and staff with a tool that will simplify all their financial transactions and needs during the Olympic Winter Games. These easy-to-use cards provide tremendous advantages. We are thrilled U.S. Team Olympic sponsors, Visa and Bank of America, have come together to provide these cards to athletes and operational staff during a busy time.

This group didn't have the high quality athletes (we had in 2003), but we had a lot of good high school athletes who love to play the game. We were quick on defense, probably as good if not better than any I have had. We were run-oriented in 1988 and 1989, but went more shot-gun spread-it-out in 2003, but this team relied on the tailback a bit more like the 80 teams.

Maurice Greene

This doesn't just go for American athletes, it goes for every athlete competing,

This feels good - my first game at tailback and I get athlete of the week, ... I couldn't do it without my blockers but it feels good. I wouldn't be able to do it without my team helping me out.

It is sad when any athlete makes the tragic decision to cheat because it robs other athletes of their deserved recognition and hurts our sport.

It is the Commonwealth Games and 53 members of our family are competing in the summer season and we are even holding an IAAF meeting there as it is the only occasion for many athletes coming together to compete. (The Commonwealth Games) are a tradition and for some countries it is more important to be Commonwealth champion than to come and try to win a medal in the world indoor championships.

It's a great honor to be included with all these other great athletes in the Hall of Fame, and it's also a real treat to join my daughter Kristin (a member of the inaugural Stoneham Athletic Hall of Fame Class) as an inductee.

It's a fact of life that dancers, like the athletes they are, suffer injuries and must eventually retire. We have been so lucky to have them here these last few years.

It's an opportunity and it's a challenge. We're professional athletes and you look for things to get up for, and this is a big-time challenge for us. We've played a couple of teams people expected us to beat and we did. We did some good things and we have to take those positives and finish strong before the break.

It's an interesting challenge, and humans do it beautifully. Just look at the coordination of the athletes in the Olympics.

It's a nice honor and a neat tradition they've started there (Buckeye Central). Especially considering there have been a lot great athletes and coaches come out of there.

It's an honor. St. X has had some great athletes over the years. It's good to be mentioned with those guys. I'm very appreciative.

It really is different. You have to figure out how each athlete works in order to get the most out of them.

It really does make a huge difference if we have that support - fan support and as much yelling and cheering. It really makes a huge difference, not only in helping motivate and pump up our athletes and help their performances, but it also just creates an environment that's special to our athletes but also is intimidating to our opponents.

It's all about athletes, especially with girls. If you can get an athlete out there that can just transfer ability, be coordinated and understand and do the mechanics and the techniques, you'll be OK. And they learn it really quick. This year I had 20 freshmen girls and I could have kept 20, that's how into the game they are.

Scott Jones

I told them all week we needed to get 400 yards rushing and control the clock. Dunbar has too many athletes and we needed to keep them off the field. They did it.

It is tough, real tough (to win back-to-back SEC individual titles). You have to be a great athlete to defend your title in the SEC because it doesn't happen a lot. That is a tribute to the team that those guys came here prepared.

Hank Thompson

Bernice is not nice. They have five athletes that can get it. When you look at Grambling, you're more concerned with their inside game. Of course, their big people are no joke.

Big game this week. First road game, first conference game and Washington comes in with a lot of momentum. We've got to put that first loss behind us and move on. (Washington) has speed and a lot of athletes on defense.

Everyone thinks that Region III is a weak region but it's really not. There are some really good athletes there.

Every professional athlete has certain places where they know it's going to be tougher for them. It's a mindset more than anything else. But I guess for me, it's a little more than that.

Every single one of our athletes has had a good summer of training. We will be ready to contend throughout the season. We don't want to go to the conference meet as C-USA champions with the same team we had last year and finish seventh or eighth at the conference meet.

Every game presents different challenges but the fact that they have similar athletes to A&M -- we saw some things last night that will be the same. It's not like you're playing two totally different styles in 48 hours. Now that can be a big challenge.

Every day I am on the phone, I'm trying to battle Div. I or Div. II. To be successful at the Div. II level, you need to get those athletes that are borderline Div. I.

David Maraniss

As soon as this tragedy happened in New Orleans, I just was haunted by memories and thoughts about Roberto Clemente and sort of how he gave his life to help people in a situation like this. It was very heartening for me to see athletes of this era come through in ways larger than themselves.

At the beginning of the season Shauna handed me a list of her goals and she has accomplished every single one of them. She's an extremely hard worker, she's motivated and very determined. It's always nice to have an athlete that wants it as much as you want it for them.

At the beginning (of the season), I fully expected to make playoffs, but as the season progressed and I saw how much every team within our conference had improved, I was not sure that was going to happen. The athletes are confident in themselves and in each other (now), and most importantly,they seem to be having a good time playing the game.

Steve Blass

The one thing I remember was hearing that he could have been a pro athlete in three different sports -- baseball, football or basketball. He was that gifted of an athlete. He was a prototypical first baseman. He was big with a big reach and gave you a big target.

Jacques Rogge

The Olympic Truce will not be eternal. After the games, bad habits will return. But this village is a perfect example of what the truce exemplifies. Here, athletes of different religions, political systems, races and languages live peacefully together.

Dick Pound

The Olympic rules and the Wada code never contemplated having doped athletes locked up,