Famous Quotes & Sayings

Another American Revolution has begun. It began here in Boston, and we'll see more of these American athletes in the future.

Dylan's one of the most dedicated athletes I've ever seen. He'll be looking to go undefeated again.

Due to short prep time - some athletes had two days of practice thanks to successful basketball seasons - most of the coaches treated this as a scrimmage meet, with fewer entries than usual and basically getting all the new athletes familiar with a meet situation. The conference teams did this; St. Stephens didn't.

Eugene's bid proposes an unprecedented focus on athletes and plans for celebrating the sport that will make it a great fan experience,

Even as a teacher, I remember the last time we brought Olympic athletes to school 10 years ago.

First, we need to provide our existing elite-level athletes with a stronger program. Secondly, we need to rejuvenate the development programs we've started in the past, but have not been able to fully maintain. Right now, we don't have a way to get those young athletes the exposure to international racing, which they need.

Everything is influenced by the fact that the athletes can't - and we don't want to encourage them to - run more.

David Maraniss

As soon as this tragedy happened in New Orleans, I just was haunted by memories and thoughts about Roberto Clemente and sort of how he gave his life to help people in a situation like this. It was very heartening for me to see athletes of this era come through in ways larger than themselves.

At the beginning (of the season), I fully expected to make playoffs, but as the season progressed and I saw how much every team within our conference had improved, I was not sure that was going to happen. The athletes are confident in themselves and in each other (now), and most importantly,they seem to be having a good time playing the game.

At the end of the day, the athletes have trained to their best. Nothing should get in their way.

At this level, we're mainly competing to get personal bests. We stress personal bests and it's really what our athletes are searching for at these events. These kids are just always trying to improve and the states are a nice reward and the New England championships are another nice reward.

Commitment. I know what it takes for athletes to be successful at this high a level. I went, sometimes during my career, four month without a day off. If you love what you are doing, being committed is really not that difficult.

(Costa) reminds me a lot of Kellen Clemens in that he played safety and quarterback, was one of the toughest, one of the fastest and one of the best athletes on the field. And he is a great leader.

Down the road, you are going to see a lot more wheelchair athletes come out. Maybe they felt uncomfortable before, but now that it's being exposed we may see more of them.

Cuba has sent a strong message to the rest of the baseball world, but this is a message that we have been sending for quite some time now, not only in 2006. Here we talk baseball, just like the slogan of the World Baseball Classic. And baseball is baseball, it doesn't matter the price paid to the athletes that play it.

Greg Erwin

We think the athletes really find Hayward Field just tremendous.

David Stern

We think that our players are the most talented athletes in the world and people come to watch them play, not to fight, bump and knock each other down.

We have enough athletes that love to compete and push each other. They keep pushing each other until they reach the regional or national level. We've never had huge numbers, but we have a lot of competitors.

We like to score and make a lot of players happy. I think it's a style of basketball that's attractive to athletes that want to get out and get it up and down the court. Most importantly, the guys just played hard out there and it was a total team effort. A lot of different guys contributed to the win, plus it keeps us undefeated in the conference.

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Both Glenn and Peter are the kind of athletes that, after a poor performance, they usually rebound really well.

Both Chris and Tyler are outstanding, world-class athletes and either would be a great Olympian. We greatly respect Chris for his accomplishments in the sport.

We are very competitive in the women's events, but that doesn't mean our athletes can definitely win gold medals.

Very upbeat, real exciting. I think a lot of guys are happy with the organizational moves, the direction it's taken. Not only the good athletes they brought in, but the camaraderie is good, too. We all fit the same type -- all easy going, no big heads and that's real key.

Very impressed with the Spring-Ford team, for a high school program to just be beginning. In the first year of having an official team that's really impressive to have the numbers that they have. We had the opportunity today to swim a variety of events. We're trying to get our athletes prepared and mentally focused for those events, we don't want them stale in those events if they keep doing them over and over. Obviously we're going to find out where we stand in the upcoming weeks.

U.S.A.D.A. is pleased there are companies interested in showing they are producing clean supplements, ... But our policy remains that athletes are responsible for what they put in their bodies.

We feel quite secure. Our athletes are well protected.

You have to remember where you want to compete. The schools at the lower end have not had that much success. If you want to compete, you must give your coaches and athletes the resources to do it.

Dusty Baker

You'd think he's left-handed when you watch him throw. He's one of the best athletes I've been around. People are surprised when they see him run. This guy can fly.

Rick Majerus

What Pop doesn't have is the athletes or depth, to a certain extent. It'll be good for this team. I tell you, it's disruptive. I think this could help George. If it doesn't, you don't lose anything. The way George plays, he's reinforced his help principles through a great drill if he never uses this (in a game).

John Jones

We have about 200 more athletes this year. This is the biggest year we've ever had.

We just do everything we can think of to give our athletes the help for them to (succeed).

We knew Chase County has some good athletes and we knew they were going to come after us. They started in a man-to-man and we were able to execute some pretty good offense. We did a lot of good things on defense. It's a pretty good win. In the second half, we got tentative and Chase County turned up the heat a little and made it a little more difficult for us to flow.