Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luke Scott

An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.

Lorrie Fair

I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!

Michael Jordan

The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.

Mia Hamm

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

Margot Fonteyn

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

Mitzi Gaynor

Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man’s game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don’t even have to do that – and they get to wear sneakers.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

Oliver Kahn

If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

Ken Robinson

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

Kelly Clark

It's definitely got to be a daily thing. There's no formula to walking with God. There's no formula to having success as an athlete. It's about relationships and it's a daily thing. You've got to revisit things and you've got to be willing to work on things all the time.

Margaret Bourke-White

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

Park Dietz

Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.

LeRoy Neiman

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.

Lee Westwood

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.

Paul Stanley

I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.

Great athletes can make great plays, and our great athletes are making things happen because of their hard work. That's extremely important to our style of play.

For our city and county residents who want to play here, it is all free. The only thing that the athlete has to pay for is his socks, shoes and mouthpiece.

For some of these athletes who haven't been in a World Cup, and won't be in one this winter, this is their chance to maybe go from not being in the World Cup to going to the Olympics.

Idi Amin

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

Giorgio Armani

I like to think that when an athlete wears Armani, it makes him or her feel confident, and as we all know, confidence is fundamental to winning in any competition.

Giorgio Armani

Of course, the muscular build of athletes is always a challenge for a designer, but my clothing's softness and comfort, which are central aspects of my stylistic vision, allow it to adapt to various physical builds effortlessly.

Harry S Truman

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

Nancy Lopez

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

Kristanna Loken

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

Kerri Walsh

Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.

Kerri Walsh

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

Kerri Walsh

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

Ken Dryden

In an athlete, it is not the legs that go first

There's definitely a difference between just having 15 athletes as opposed to one team. That's kind of what we count on because we're not the best athletes. We sure as hell aren't the biggest, fastest people around.

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At a Group Two school, to have two special athletes like that at the same time might happen once in a lifetime. That's the reality. It went by fast. I like the challenge of trying to get other players.

A stronger, more flexible body will tolerate a fall better. The underlying message is that snowboarding and skiing safety have to entail a lifestyle commitment. Maintaining a proper fitness level is essential and winter athletes need to incorporate it naturally into their fitness routines.

George Vecsey

All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know.