Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Ebersol

The Olympic opening ceremony is the most important event for the vast majority of the athletes here. Most won't come close to a medal. And for them, this is the pinnacle of their athletic careers.

The most important thing is to work with the athlete for him to discover how to optimize the various positions relative to the skiing,

Joe Gibbs

Adam's workouts and routines are kind of legendary. This is probably one of the best trained athletes on the league. He's extremely serious about football. We never talked any business until he felt comfortable about seeing how he would fit in with us.

Spencer, a lot of times, played the other team's best player on defense. He is very quick and is also the quarterback on the football team, which should tell you how good of an athlete he is.

Speedway has some really good athletes so we have to cut down on their big plays.

On day six, we are now seeing the Olympic Games really getting into their stride. They are really focusing on sport and on the athletes which at the end of the day is what it is all about.

Now I think I'm more of an athlete than a dancer. I feel there are more opportunities for me in volleyball than in dancing.

Notwithstanding the proposition that seasoned athletes can perform in the face of distraction, the nature of the distraction and the experience of the athlete is the paramount issue at the collegiate level.

Nowadays, pro athletes are so recognizable; their faces are plastered everywhere. There are guys who are good people who are put in bad situations and just don't know how to handle those situations. Guys will start a fight with a basketball player because they know that if he connects with a punch, they're going to sue.

Once we have a new stadium, it will energize the athletes in Minnesota, the coaches in Minnesota, so that it will help recruiting next year. Even though it won't be there next year, that class will play in it.

Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the perfect reviewer.

We are very excited to have Kirsten become a member of the University of New Hampshire volleyball family. Kirsten is an outstanding athlete who will excel on the court and in the classroom. She has all the tools to be an immediate impact player for us. She has an outstanding vertical jump and is a very competitive player. She is also very gifted academically so it was a perfect fit for the both of us.

We have enough athletes that love to compete and push each other. They keep pushing each other until they reach the regional or national level. We've never had huge numbers, but we have a lot of competitors.

We like to score and make a lot of players happy. I think it's a style of basketball that's attractive to athletes that want to get out and get it up and down the court. Most importantly, the guys just played hard out there and it was a total team effort. A lot of different guys contributed to the win, plus it keeps us undefeated in the conference.

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Both Glenn and Peter are the kind of athletes that, after a poor performance, they usually rebound really well.

Both Chris and Tyler are outstanding, world-class athletes and either would be a great Olympian. We greatly respect Chris for his accomplishments in the sport.

Bode is clearly the type of athlete that comes once every 50 years.

Brandon Dunn is a tremendous athlete and their entire team should be proud of the way they played. They played us tough and I give them a lot of credit because we were not able to do some of the things that we wanted to do.

Duran's a playmaker. He's a super athlete with a lot of talent. We have a lot of other talented guys, and Conner decided to take them away and blitz a lot, so Duran had room to make plays. He makes great decisions, and he's a total player from top to bottom.

Dustin is not 100 percent, so we are going to have to pick our spots when we use him and not overuse him so he's not available in May. I would not call it an injury, but it's just one of those things that nags him on occasion. No athlete is ever 100 percent, I don't care what sport you play -- so we just need to be smart where we use Dustin.

Dustin is a tremendous athlete and if you look at his weight room statistics, he's one of the strongest players on the team.

Dylan's one of the most dedicated athletes I've ever seen. He'll be looking to go undefeated again.

Due to short prep time - some athletes had two days of practice thanks to successful basketball seasons - most of the coaches treated this as a scrimmage meet, with fewer entries than usual and basically getting all the new athletes familiar with a meet situation. The conference teams did this; St. Stephens didn't.

Erica has that confidence now in what we?re trying to do. She?s a great young athlete who?s going to continue to get better. Really, I think she?s just touched the surface.

Eugene's bid proposes an unprecedented focus on athletes and plans for celebrating the sport that will make it a great fan experience,

Even as a teacher, I remember the last time we brought Olympic athletes to school 10 years ago.

First, we need to provide our existing elite-level athletes with a stronger program. Secondly, we need to rejuvenate the development programs we've started in the past, but have not been able to fully maintain. Right now, we don't have a way to get those young athletes the exposure to international racing, which they need.

Everything is influenced by the fact that the athletes can't - and we don't want to encourage them to - run more.

There's still some growing pains to go through and some things he needs to work on himself like we all do. You have to let him develop on his own. You can't make him into the player you want him to be. He has to develop on his own as an athlete and be the general on the field. Different quarterbacks do it different ways. Right now, the main thing is let him do it the best way he sees fit.

Mats Sundin

There's a good chance this will be my last. But I feel very fortunate to have a chance to play for medals in this tournament. For any athlete having a chance to be at an Olympics is such a tremendous opportunity.

Jerry Miller

There should be some good races. Historically, we've had some of the fastest athletes in the state race in this meet.

There's no question there were more athletes on (Reynoldsburg's) team than ours. At the same time, I don't think their kids had any bigger hearts than ours. I'm extremely proud of every player that stepped on the floor.