Famous Quotes & Sayings

She will be the most recognized female athlete on the planet for the next 12 to 18 months. Her marketability will never be higher than it is now. How much money she makes long-term will be determined by how well she plays.

She's a tremendous athlete with great leadership skills and a work ethic second to none.

She's a pure athlete who has a lot of really good tools. She's a great defensive player, she hits well and she has good speed. She has a lot going for her.

She's a phenomenal athlete and this year we're going to have the luxury of being able to keep her at the off-guard position.

She's an awesome athlete with tremendous power. At the beginning, maybe there was a little fear in the back of her mind. But she's built confidence throughout the year. She's gotten stronger as the season's progressed and is in better shape because she hasn't had to sit out. She's a real competitor. The more competition she's in, the more she rises to it.

She's really taken on a leadership role this year and that's hard when you're only a sophomore, and a younger sophomore at that. She's a great athlete and a tremendous student. The sky's the limit for her.

She's just a very mature athlete in terms of knowing when it's time to be serious and knowing when to start preparing early. Some people just go up and try to run.

She's blended with our other athletes to make them better. She's also set a precedent that, if you're going to be good you're going to have to work, you have to get better, you have to be a team player.

She's beautiful, good with the media and hasn't even come into her own yet. She may earn more than any other female athlete in the history of this country.

She's got to be one of the top returning athletes in the state.

She's played well. She's an excellent athlete and she can hit the ball very well.

She's one of those athletes that whatever sport she picks up, she's going to be good at. In track and field, she's going to be great. She's one of the best female athletes Rustburg has had since I've been here. Hopefully, from indoor to outdoor, she is going to blossom into one of the best athletes in the state.

She's not going to compete. When the time comes, once she's been cleared to really start training, we'll move into that phase. But I'm not going to injure (or risk injuring) an athlete for a minor goal. Logan has a long way to go in her career.

Don Yaeger

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

Shane Koyczan

I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.

Louis Tomlinson

But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant.

James Keller

When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

Bill James

We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the word 'need.' We like to have new games every day, and, if we are to have a constant and endless flow of games, we need a constant flow of athletes.

Boris Becker

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

We're logistically challenged in recruiting, and sometimes we're a little late on guys, and we don't get the best athletes in America. So our walk-on program has to strengthen the efforts we have with scholarship players. Local kids are sometimes overlooked because they're not as fast or as big or as strong, and they come in here with the attitude of, 'I'm good enough to play.' If they prove it, we give them a scholarship.

Tim is an outstanding athlete who covers the court like a blanket. He is very hard to overpower and has a wealth of experience.

This squad is loaded with really great athletes and I really think they're going to make some noise in the league.

To be a student athlete is tough. You get to class and people don't realize that you have practice all week. It's very time consuming, but you build something special. You have over thirty kids on your team and you build a special bond with them that I don't think most kids in college get. It's certainly taxing.

George Foreman

There shouldn't be budget problems. There is so much money that goes untapped. If every athlete gave 5% of what they earned, there wouldn't be any budget problems.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural.

Abby Wambach

I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.

Abby Wambach

The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

Alexis Arguello

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

Leon Washington

When you are dealing with young men, period, you're going to make mistakes and you're going to have guys get injured. Our job as seniors and as coaches is to prepare the young guys that we have to step up. I think we have the athletes to get it done.

Adolf Hitler

Give me an athlete and I'll give you an army.

Adam Sandler

I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

Allen Johnson

It's about stepping up on the big stage. The athlete who can do that is goig to do well.

Andrea Bocelli

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.