Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

This announcement brings us another step closer to ensuring that more Canadian athletes experience the greatness of standing on the podium representing Canada in 2010.

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.

Tamba Hali

They were graduating 86-90 percent of their athletes that year, and they were graduating minorities (at a) high (rate). Everything just fell into place for me.

This guy had been a soccer coach in the Balkans. He was saying how these athletes in Europe could kick a ball 80 meters.

They've got a lot of athletes and got us out of our tempo. The speed of the game was way faster than we were use to and that was the difference.

They're well coached. They have good athletes and they've been there before. If you can hit the three, you'll be good.

They (St. Cloud) are a very good football team. They play hard. They have big, strong athletes all over the field. They're very deserving of their No. 13 ranking.

They ran a box-and-one on her in the first half and frustrated her. Plus they had a good athlete guarding her.

A lot of people come here simply for a drink or a meal. A lot of the athletes will eat after a match, and sometimes, they'll be munching on food right out there during the games.

Kim Williams

A lot of our athletes that scored tonight are young. They're the names people are going to be reading about for the next few years to come.

Glen Cook

A lot of great young athletes out here on this field tonight, both sides.

All of Canada's athletes turned in an exceptional performance at these Games and they've made all Canadians proud.

A lot of athletes stepped up today. I think every point is going to be important this week.

O. J. Simpson

A lot of athletes came by telling me they broke personal records. I was impressed; some of the times turned in were very nice times.

A lot of athletes are arrogant, narcissistic, prima donnas and selfish, and he never fell into that category. He's one of the most-sensitive, intelligent people I've known. When all of this is over, I'd like to be his mentor.

A lot of the feedback we received from athletes said their significant others desperately wanted to participate in the weekend, but weren't ready to compete in the long-distance event. The sprint distance race addresses this request.

A lot of people still think that curlers are a bunch of big fat lazy guys, but it takes an athlete to come out and win. There are always questions about it.

Dan Lewis

A lot of suburbs have great facilities, a lot of money that is put into (the private school athletic programs), ... Integration is a big thing that hurt us because we (at Carver) always had a lot of good athletes and after integration they were going somewhere else.

(Amateur) athletes may not know what they're doing. The cream they're putting on sore muscles could contain steroids and they don't know it.

A lot of these athletes, their objective is to sustain their quest for the next Olympics, not having to work at a job that distracts them, ... Most of them will gladly do it on six-figure deals. Five-figure deals are what a lot of these athletes look for.

A lot of us are really surprised at how they're playing because they have so many athletes on the team. It does kind of bother us that they're 3-3.