Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'll share my perspective with various individuals. I think the league players have something to offer on a selective basis, but it's on that selective basis. They're great athletes in their own right. A case-by-case scenario. Some players would make the transition, some not.

John Ashcroft

illegal steroid use calls into question not only the integrity of the athletes who use them but also the integrity of the sports that those athletes play.

I have to give credit to all of the athletes for improving throughout the season and earning 10th place.

Mike Farrell

Hicks, Robinson, Wilson ... I don't want to jump the gun, but these guys are Alfred Fincher-type guys. Very focused, great athletes with very good work ethics.

Carl Edwards

He's totally consumed by racing, ... It's a passion. Everybody who succeeds highly is driven by what they're involved in, whether it's artists, writers, athletes or whatever.

Hopefully we run faster, jump higher and throw farther than we have all year. We've had some athletes out with injuries, and I'd like to get some of them feeling better for this weekend.

He's probably one of the better all-around athletes we have.

He's really trying to motivate the younger kids, be a leader in practice and during meets, and right now he's in that caliber of one of our top athletes that we get through here every year.

I don't really believe our athletes are aware of the effect of steroids. I think we should require every student athlete to attend a class to educate them about the damage of steroid use.

I don't know if it's in the public consciousness as it was a few months ago, ... Steroids are bad, we don't want our athletes to use them and it sets poor examples for our young people, but we've just seen a massive failure of governance on the national and local level.

Mark Buchanan

I didn't think we'd shut them out, but I thought we could contain them if we played physical inside -- and we did. Coach (Toby) Tabor had the defense ready to go. We have a lot of good athletes out there, and we've got good athletes on the sidelines, too. Our depth is one of our strong points.

It was terrific. You're out there with the best athletes in the world, and they are hitting the ball as hard as they can.

It was such a beautiful day. The 18 athletes who went had a great experience, since we hadn't seen a track yet. It was spring break, so 18 is about half of them, so that was great. We went down there a day early to practice.

Kaylin Richardson

It was awesome, everything I ever imagined. It's just so cool representing your country and meeting other athletes and being able to say, 'I'm an Olympian!' for the rest of my life.

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.

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 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.

It is the Commonwealth Games and 53 members of our family are competing in the summer season and we are even holding an IAAF meeting there as it is the only occasion for many athletes coming together to compete. (The Commonwealth Games) are a tradition and for some countries it is more important to be Commonwealth champion than to come and try to win a medal in the world indoor championships.

It's a great honor to be included with all these other great athletes in the Hall of Fame, and it's also a real treat to join my daughter Kristin (a member of the inaugural Stoneham Athletic Hall of Fame Class) as an inductee.

It's a fact of life that dancers, like the athletes they are, suffer injuries and must eventually retire. We have been so lucky to have them here these last few years.

It's an opportunity and it's a challenge. We're professional athletes and you look for things to get up for, and this is a big-time challenge for us. We've played a couple of teams people expected us to beat and we did. We did some good things and we have to take those positives and finish strong before the break.

It's an interesting challenge, and humans do it beautifully. Just look at the coordination of the athletes in the Olympics.

Jim Bunning

It's very important for our kids. Like it or not, these athletes serve as role models for our children.

I want the opportunity to work with student athletes at Lakeland and the chance to be around them.

I try to point out to our players that, despite our record, we are a good team. We have athletes who can score, but the key is stopping teams on the defensive end.

Jerry Angelo

It used to be you never took a tight end in the first round. But they're looked at as athletes now. They're looked at as a skill position.

It used to be, most of your great athletes in the state only played football. Now if you get the best kids from Florida, you have a chance to win a national (basketball) championship. I don't know if you could say that before.

It will be more like linebackers than most of us look like now. That's the trend anyway, better athletes playing golf.

It went well. We had 34 schools and 900 athletes here and we got them out of here by 4:15.