Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emanuel Steward

I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

Ellie Goulding

I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.

Lauren Jackson

I always had that desire to become a great athlete.

Julianna Baggott

If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans...

Lois McMaster Bujold

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

Lori Foster

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

Lou Holtz

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Lou Holtz

You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

Malcolm Gladwell

A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke to Kobe last night, and Kobe says his finger is going to be fine. They spent three days fly-fishing with Brett Favre in March, and Brett says he's definitely coming back for another season.

Magic Johnson

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

Magic Johnson

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

Major Taylor

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

Major Taylor

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

Norman Mailer

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.

Norman Ralph Augustine

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

O. J. Simpson

I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.

Emil Zatopek

By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

Josh Peck

When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal thread, whether you're an athlete, a dancer, an actor or a singer. It's all about maintaining your body because that allows you to do what you do.

Leigh Steinberg

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

Leigh Steinberg

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

Leigh Steinberg

For a generation that gets most of its information off a computer screen (be it Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or what have you), an athlete has to be very careful about the public/private aspect of that. Be careful not to be overly critical, be careful with use of language, and understand the whole world is watching.

Lisa Guerrero

Theres that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

Lisa Guerrero

I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer.

Lisa Guerrero

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

Lisa Guerrero

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.

Linford Christie

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

Linford Christie

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

Linford Christie

I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.

Linford Christie

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

Linford Christie

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

Linford Christie

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

Linford Christie

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.