Famous Quotes & Sayings

We understand when there is a change in leadership, athletes could have a change in their feelings.

What I focus on is not the ribbons and the trophies but the progress the girls make as athletes and people, developing a respect for the sport and for the other athletes. To me, that's what coaching is all about.

Jake always trains hard. He trained hard in high school and trained hard as a freshman. He just has a lot of belief in himself. He had a really good indoor season and I think it carries over. Sometimes athletes just get on a roll. He's in a zone. That's just the way it is for him right now and it's just working.

I would say there are several players coming off of last weekend that should be feeling confident. Confidence is a choice, and that's a matter of being able to block the distractions. Everybody has a poor performance. The better athletes know where to place that, learn from it and move on.

Just like athletes in other sports, race-related injuries happen and are easier to understand. Injuries like this are tough to handle.

Keeping up with your schoolwork is difficult, but coach does a good job of keeping us on task and all the kids here are well-rounded. Good students, good athletes stand up to the challenge.

I think it really opened the door for black athletes at the time.

Phil Niekro

I think it just shows you how many great athletes and their great achievements we have here in Northeast Georgia.

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.

He did it, and he never complained once. He also stays here to train during the holidays while most athletes choose to go home. He knows what he has to do to be great, and he's happy to do it.

He is there for a reason. He is going to make some throws and he has some athletes out there who can catch the ball.

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.

He is passionate about coaching, he values and develops each athlete's unique skills and leadership abilities, and he challenges both his veteran athletes and neophytes to be better persons in and out of the pool.

He knows we need to get him involved more. He is one of our best athletes and we need to find ways to keep him out on the field.

Hands down, they are the best defense we'll face, ... They are in a well-respected conference, and this is the first time in a long time that our guys have seen these types of athletes with that kind of speed and size. So it's a good experience. The thing that I like most of all is our guys remained positive throughout the whole game.

There are so many good athletes everywhere. If you are not ready, you're going to get beat.

There are so many athletes on this team. But everybody gives up a little bit to make the team better.

We can confirm that there have been three anti-doping rule violations all of which come from the two athletes already identified.

What would gripe him the most is here are a great new breed of athletes who never get to truly demonstrate what they have because they're lost in the sleazy soap opera,

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.

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.