Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are thousands of those letters that athletes have, and I'm sure they chuckle every time they get them, ... 20/20.

Arthur Lydiard

My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain.

Arthur Ashe

Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.

Ben Cross

I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.

Cara Castronuova

My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.

Michael Bay

The psychological root behind this competitive streak is that I was an athlete when I was young and took sports really seriously. I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks - which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

Carson Palmer

So many people get caught up in being a pro athlete and think they are better. I don't feel like I've ever changed or acted any differently because of the situation I'm in or that status I have.

Alberto Juantorena

I believe the Athletes Commission has an important role at this moment. We need to protect the image of athletics all over the world.

I am very excited about getting back into college coaching, ... I have had many athletes go on to great experiences in the college ranks and watched how much they enjoyed it. Cari and I enjoy some common coaching experiences and I feel this will definitely help in the formation of this year's team.

I am thrilled by our athletes continuously winning awards and would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to them.

CAS functioned in the way we have come to expect of them. Once the offense is established, then the onus goes on the athlete to convince the panel that there was no fault or no significant fault. The panel found no significant fault.

Certainly, the data is trending in the right direction. The increases for all African-American student athletes were between 15 and 18 percent, and that's good, but that doesn't mean the job's over. There's room for improvement, and we hope that institutions are able to continue that trend working upward.

Certainly over the last 15-20 years, the sheer dollars paid to athletes have increased dramatically, but we're also in a cycle where the top athletes get paid extremely well at the expense of the middle class.

CEOs are highly skilled people like a pro athlete or artist, selling a skill, ... It?s very hard to put a monetary value on a skill, but a good quarterback makes $10 million a year, based on an athletic skill, in the same way a painting might bring in $10 million to an artist.

But we had a number of other athletes who specialized. Our boys' cross country team qualified for state, boys' golf did a good job and won state. So it's a mixture of the core group of girls and other athletes.

Peter Ueberroth

But there's still room for women, and what we see are emerging female athletes and female fans. This is all changing the modern American sports.

Bryce is a great athlete with tremendous speed. He has a knack for getting the ball into the goal.

Mike White

Chris ran really well tonight. He's a good athlete and tonight he kept his feet moving and was focused.

Liev Schreiber

My grandfather was an athlete who worked as a butcher by day, but at night he taught himself to paint and play the cello. He was a very cultured man,

Joe Glenn

Maybe just the talent level is up a little bit, and the continuity and stability of our coaching staff is solid. Now our athletes know and understand what the coaching staff wants, and we're all in sync.

Maybe athletes and others in sports got a free ride for too long. Maybe it's good that they're being treated like everyone else in the world. One of the major roles of journalism is to be a watchdog of big business and big government and big celebrities. Why should sports be any different?

David Thornton

Nutrition is becoming more and more important to all athletes as far as performance level, ... At this level, it's very serious. The type of food you put into your body can enhance your performance or dehance it. If you want to be the best athlete you can be, you want to be as lean as you can be. The leaner athlete is the better athlete.

Jim Turner

Number one, he's got the most experience. Number two, he's the best athlete we have up front. He's a converted defensive lineman. From the get-go, guys aren't playing on the offensive line because they're better athletes.

Linford Christie

Now that we've got it up and running again, we've got a few ideas about that. 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.

Woody Harrelson

NEVER BEEN SURROUNDED BY SO MANY GREAT ATHLETES

Next March, nearly 2,000 Indian athletes and performers will come to Ballarat as part of the Commonwealth Games in Australia. This would be a fantastic bonus for the local economy.

Nobody wants to see empty seats, because our student athletes deserve the crowds we used to have 20, 25 years ago. We don't want to do anything to hinder crowd participation.

No doubt, it's on his mind, but he should be fine. He's one of the truly best athletes we've ever had. He's become a leader because he plays so hard and everyone respects him. I think we'll wait until the end of the season to see what he's going to do about college.

Nothing attracts audiences better than winning and American athletes tend to perform better in the Summer Games than the Winter Games.

Given the level of talent coming to this year's competition, we are raising the stakes and offering $25,000 to each athlete that sets a world record. We are confident that we will witness at least one record-breaking performance.

Charles Schumer

Getting the Olympics would be a huge boost for New York economically, developmentally, and spiritually. The most talented people in the world have always come to New York to prove they have what it takes, so it makes perfect sense for the best athletes in the world to come here for the same reason.

Daley Thompson

Frankly I don't follow Indian athletics to a great extent but I do know that it has started to pick up a bit of late. Five years hence, I expect Indian athletes to be a force to reckon with.