Famous Quotes & Sayings

Takeru Kobayashi

Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

Steve Lacy

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

Stephen Covey

Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education of the conscience is vital to the truly proactive, highly effective person. Training and educating the conscience, however, requires even greater concentration, more balanced discipline, more consistently honest living. It requires regular feasting on inspiring literature, thinking noble thoughts and, above all, living in harmony with its still small voice.

Stephen Covey

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.

Tony Dungy

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

Shawn Johnson

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.

Shaun White

I guess I'm an athlete now. I gotta start going to the gym.

Summer Sanders

Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.

Sun Tzu

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

Ricky Williams

I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.

Ricky Williams

I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

Taylor Branch

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

Kobe Bryant

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

Kevin James

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

Kendrick Lamar

Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.

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.

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.

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.

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.