Famous Quotes & Sayings

It came down to those last two athletes to do their job the best they could and both Stephanie and Meredith really came through in the clutch.

Pierre Lueders

I'm a learning poker player. In certain races, we didn't show our best athletes or used our second best runners on the sled. You can gain a lot of confidence in races by seeing how much you can accomplish. Then you think how much better you can do once you put in the best.

I have a good feeling. We have some good athletes and good attitudes.

Eric Mangini

I have always had the highest regard for him both as an individual and as one of the fiercest and most determined athletes in the game.

I have a really good group of athletes and they have taken to the team tremendously. They're having great fun. They've learned very quickly and are doing well.

Brian Billick

I feel very good about the core of this team. We have some very good athletes here. We've got some very good character on this team. That's a good place to start, and we'll augment it over the next six months in every way that we can.

I think it's especially important he focused on young athletes and that cheating by star athletes sends the wrong message,

Roy Williams

I think it's embarrassing, ... especially when you're an NFL football team full of professional athletes getting blown out -- which it was. I mean, let's call it what it was: a blowout.

I think it's case of Penn State not focusing on the right kids. You don't see them often bringing in superior skill athletes from outside the state.

Kamerion Wimbley

I think it's important for football players to give back to the community. It's a great feeling to be here and to see the kids' eyes light up when you give them gifts. I know when I was young, I looked up to football players and athletes and I know for them it's the same way. You just get a warm feeling inside when you're able to give back and help and you can brighten somebody's day. It's definitely a positive.

Ernie Kent

It certainly inspired African-Americans in college basketball and everything else. I don't want to say it opened up the door, but it certainly was a bridge to recruiting athletes of color. It definitely revolutionized the game.

It comes down to who wants it more. It doesn't matter who has the better athletes or stick skills.

It is a different way to try to teach people that Special Olympic athletes and people with disabilities have abilities and traits about them that make them want to be your friend. Whether people like the movie or do not like the movie, there was good intent behind it.

I think you put the pressure on them and they're mortal. I think we're a smart team. You have plenty of athletes who don't have it mentally. With us, that's one of our strengths.

Jacques Rogge

I think the deterrent effect and the message has been sent since Salt Lake City. The athletes know that the noose is tightening. They will probably, I hope so, be more careful and wiser. But you can't guarantee that.

I think the biggest issue is that men historically have had opportunities to start developing competitive skills at a very young age, whereas most women didn't. So a lot of women athletes missed out on the opportunity to work out all those complex emotions that happen in fierce competition. Rather than genetic differences, I've found that the real differences go away when males and females have equal competitive experiences beginning at a young age. That's happening more in our culture, and no question the top women athletes of the future are going to be just as tough and focused as the top men.

He really understands the athletes and would be very helpful to parents and coaches.

Lennox Lewis

Here I will help build up other athletes around the world and help them avoid the mistakes I made,

Having them split time might hurt us early. Both are versatile athletes that we need on the field. Michael had an edge with experience.

Having the honor to help the nation's best coaches cultivate the nation's best talent is huge. Anything I can do to help them win Olympic medals and give our athletes the best possible Olympic experience will be my goal.

Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.

Having this kind of technology available to athletes and coaches helps give us that necessary edge that you need to win on the world stage.

Her family was really supportive. The athletes were really concerned. They stayed behind her. These guys train together every day. It's an incredible accomplishment for her to skate in an individual event.

For men, the stereotypical image has been that gay men are not competitive, not tough enough. It's important for people to see that these stereotypes are not true. Women athletes who come out become instant heroes, because lesbians want strong heroes.

He's as down to earth as they come. You don't always see that in upper-echelon athletes like him. The kid has been raised right.

He's a real quiet, unassuming kid. He's very humble. I've had a lot of athletes and some of them, when they are in Dar'veon's position, they get a little full of themselves. He's certainly not one of them. He's a confident athlete.

He?s a very graceful athlete. Not too many athletes can get their body to flow and bend in that manner. It was a big-time athletic movement.

His 'Take the Field' program was one of the most innovative and beautiful efforts in athletics in this country, ... His efforts provide fields of play for young New York athletes who otherwise would have no place to play.

His wife works at Goshen College. Here is a guy who has trained national track athletes in Bulgaria and he kind of fell right into our lap.

Hockey players are doing everything that other athletes do and more, but we're doing it on ice. We've got to be able to avoid body contact like basketball and football players, and we've got to be able to handle this puck with our sticks?while we're moving on eight-inch steel blades. Hockey uses every single muscle in the body, without exception.

He's going to have to take the lead, or fall in and make it a strategic race. I could see it going either way. I'm hoping he takes control and is aggressive, but with the likes of what the Razorbacks have, it's going to be interesting for the crowd and for the other athletes in the race.

He's going to have to take the lead, or fall in and make it a strategic race, ... I could see it going either way. I'm hoping he takes control and is aggressive, but with the likes of what the Razorbacks have, it's going to be interesting for the crowd and for the other athletes in the race.

Jerry Jones

If any of my runners had a last-second question, I wanted them to be able to find me fast. Nowadays, I wear it so my athletes can make sure I get on the right bus when it's time to go home.