Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am very excited about getting back into college coaching, ... I have had many athletes go on to great experiences in the college ranks and watched how much they enjoyed it. Cari and I enjoy some common coaching experiences and I feel this will definitely help in the formation of this year's team.

I am thrilled by our athletes continuously winning awards and would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to them.

CAS functioned in the way we have come to expect of them. Once the offense is established, then the onus goes on the athlete to convince the panel that there was no fault or no significant fault. The panel found no significant fault.

Certainly, the data is trending in the right direction. The increases for all African-American student athletes were between 15 and 18 percent, and that's good, but that doesn't mean the job's over. There's room for improvement, and we hope that institutions are able to continue that trend working upward.

Certainly over the last 15-20 years, the sheer dollars paid to athletes have increased dramatically, but we're also in a cycle where the top athletes get paid extremely well at the expense of the middle class.

CEOs are highly skilled people like a pro athlete or artist, selling a skill, ... It?s very hard to put a monetary value on a skill, but a good quarterback makes $10 million a year, based on an athletic skill, in the same way a painting might bring in $10 million to an artist.

But we had a number of other athletes who specialized. Our boys' cross country team qualified for state, boys' golf did a good job and won state. So it's a mixture of the core group of girls and other athletes.

Peter Ueberroth

But there's still room for women, and what we see are emerging female athletes and female fans. This is all changing the modern American sports.

Bryce is a great athlete with tremendous speed. He has a knack for getting the ball into the goal.

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.

Nancy Greene

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

Sebastian Coe

Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

Scott Speedman

I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.

Ray Allen

There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine.

Sloane Crosley

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

Skylar Diggins

I'm not a woman that's an athlete! I'm an athlete!

Theodore Hesburgh

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

Marcus Allen

I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.

Michael Horton

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

Michael Horton

Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."

Michael B. Jordan

I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

Jerome Bettis

The first year, you're a fish out of water; you have no idea of the offense. Year two, you know the offense, you're comfortable. Now you can see the confidence come out, so now you see an athlete look like a totally different football player because they've got confidence, they're playing with authority and they understand where they need to be. So it's not so much that they get better in terms of talent, but you can see the talent.

Reggie Bush

You can steal our plays all you want. But you've got to have the athletes to make it happen.

You can see the excitement on all of the athletes' faces. After years of training and competing, their moment is finally here and we are looking forward to watching Danielle Goyette lead Canada's athletes into the Opening Ceremony.

You don?t have to choose between being an elite athlete and being a student.

Pat LaFontaine

You can't abuse your body and you need to work hard on your weaknesses. Everyone likes to focus on the things they are good at. But when you focus on the things you are weak at, it makes you a much better athlete.

Plato

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

LeBron James

I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not.

LaVell Edwards

It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well when he returns, he will often play better. If an athlete could play well before he went on a mission, he will definitely play well when he returns; and, if an athlete could not play well before his mission, he probably won't play well when he returns. However, his chances of playing well are perhaps better if he goes because he will return with . . . better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful.

LaVell Edwards

We tend to look at successful athletes and make them almost bigger than life. I have seen many young men who have achieved greatness. I have also seen those who have come up a little short of their potential. I do know that those who succeed have been able to recognize within themselves the potential to do something well and then work hard to prepare themselves for that eventual opportunity. Others wait for the opportunity to come and then start to work, thus coming up a little short.

Lance Berkman

I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great.