Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's critical that as the host nation, Canadian athletes have spectacular results.

It's imperative we run a clean program in every respect. From an NCAA situation, from a discipline situation to having quality athletes in our program. If they're not of high character, and not willing to pay the price and do the things they need to do, they're not going to be in our program. It's the same for our coaches. We're going to do it right.

It was an obstacle that Jonathan could overcome. I know Jonathan was strong enough to face the challenge head on and he did that. He was an inspiration and a very special athlete for us.

It will be a fun show, as well as a good thing for our athletes to have people cheering them on from the stands. It usually includes fireworks, entertainment and the law enforcement torch run. We invite the public to come and just watch Friday and Saturday.

It's awesome I don't know a better way to say it. He's a guy used to being in the fire and doesn't panic when things don't happen exactly right. He's a good enough athlete to capitalize on those situations.

Tom Izzo

It's back to the drawing board on defense. We have good enough athletes and good enough players to get it done. But they're going to be coached harder in the next three-and-a-half days.

It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

It's a completely different deal with them. St. Edward's is going to come in here with a lot of athletes and pressure you the whole time. It's a little different ballgame.

It's a continuous program that is run all year round. Pat O'Toole is always training the athletes in nutrition and safe training.

Joe Glenn

It's a combination of them having a great pass rush with great athletes and their coverage. We were covered. They spread the net, they played a real soft zone on us, and we just weren't able to get open.

It's a bond we have. A lot of us played youth league football together, and some of the best athletes in the state come from here.

Troy Vincent

It's about teaching life skills and easing the transition after graduation. Not all athletes are going pro-in fact, very few are, ... But even being a professional athlete doesn't define you as a person ... It doesn't define who you are as a male or female, athlete or non-athlete at the collegiate level or in the real world.

I've never coached or played a game that I've felt that way. Too many coaches and athletes tend to take that side, that it just isn't their day. I say make it your day.

I've been an athlete all my life, and I've never had an opportunity to do something like this. I get to play on the first-ever women's pro football team in Albuquerque. That's something.

I've always considered it a privilege to serve the Canadian Olympic team in a leadership capacity. I look forward to working closely with the Canadian Olympic Committee over the next two years as we strive to provide optimum support for Canada's athletes and coaches competing in Beijing.

I wanted to bring track and field to Southern Utah to showcase some of the athletes we have. We have quality athletes.

college coaches can get athletic programs placed on probation by violating rules, yet they can bounce to another job while their former school is put on probation and the athletes left behind are reprimanded. It seems the NCAA should wise up and ... ban them from being hired by another school.

Ethan Zohn

I don't know if anything can really prepare you for 'Survivor,' but since I grew up as an athlete, the physical aspect came to me more easily.

Esther Williams

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

In Class S you usually field a team with athletes instead of soccer players. These guys have developed a skill level that's so much better than any team I've coached.

In all the coaching clinics that I've taken, one of the comments you always hear is that if you coach a long time, at least once you will get the pleasure of coaching an athlete that could be at the Olympic level. I really feel that, in my career, she'll probably be the athlete that has a chance at becoming an Olympic athlete.

I know they have a great running back in Cameron Island. And they always have a lot of athletes at the skill positions. This is a great test for us early in the year.

I know them well enough, usually by a couple of months, that I can tell if they are hurting or if something is wrong with them. Most of the time they are honest, sometimes they're not. They are athletes and they don't want to sit out. Our job is not to sit them out, but if it is in their best interest to get them back quicker, sometimes we have to do that.

Jacques Rogge

I know the importance of China's National Games, and it is not only for the athletes but for the whole population,

Kate Voegele

I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

Katarina Witt

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

Katarina Witt

Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

Katarina Witt

I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

Katherine Dunn

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

Harvey Mackay

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

The emphasis on Division I athletics director experience automatically puts minorities at a disadvantage. As a result, it is unclear whether the best possible candidates are being considered for top jobs. And we end up with people making decisions who don't reflect the athletes on the playing field or courts.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

Sonny Vaccaro

LeBron james came, and he gets $10 million a year. There was no stigma or blemish, like you have with one-and-done. Now people say, "He's not a student, he's an athlete." Well, of course he's not a student! He's here for one year and he told you he's here for one year, and the school took him with open arms.