Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Shields

For any athlete, you never can tell what's going to happen four years, five years down the road,

It's the only country in the world where you can combine athletics and education. Most of the rest of the world, you have to make a choice.

It's always been about the team. I'm extremely proud of this team. Not many kids can say they've been part of 43 wins in two years. ... The great thing about athletics is it teaches us lessons about life. Today was a tough lesson.

Great athlete. What we were doing when we signed Gary was a little more of using our quarterback in a run-pass way.

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

Robert Johnson

At first, me not playing quarterback, I didn't want to do it, ... I'm an athlete, so maybe coach Leach saw something in me, so I didn't complain. I'm out here making plays, so I'm just going to keep on doing what I'm doing.

Socrates

Athletics have become professionalized.

I think our league has a philosophy and a stance on what they think athletics should mean to their institutions and overall as a league. I think that's what they want to do, and I respect that greatly.

I'm learning a lot from Bret. He doesn't have athleticism and you really can't teach it, but Bret is a good player. We complement each other. He's the most inspirational player as far as always having a smile on and getting guys ready.

Kelly Holmes

I'm pretty emotional, ... Athletics has been my life, my passion.

I'm proud of Jeff. He's stepped up and taken a leadership role. He's stronger. He's a terrific athlete.

(The Fire) was looking for an outside defender who would be a good man marker, and with Jeremy's athleticism, I think he will be a good fit.

The European circuit is the centre of athletics and, as an example, when you are running in Zurich, you never get introduced to the crowd as the Commonwealth champion.

Sylvester Croom

The guy's a student-athlete. He was being a student.

The history and tradition of Husky athletics are very, very appealing. Much of my career is at the I-A level. I missed that and look forward to returning to the I-A level.

All the sudden that door closed that's a very difficult thing for any athlete. As those opportunities seemed to get fewer and far between, it may have opened the door for something else. I don't know.

Ken Hitchcock

This is a huge deal for the players. For once in their lives, they get to feel like an athlete, not an entertainment machine. They live with everyone else from different sports. They get to represent their countries, which is the biggest thing for these players. From the experiences of '98 and '02, this is a big thing.

All developers are looking to deliver as much value as they can to their buyers, with superior quality and great finishes and anything else we can think of. In the Avery, you will get athletics and art.

Vick is Vick. He's an incredible athlete. We have to do everything possible to contain him and get enough guys around him. He can get away from anything.

Sebastian Coe

The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.

Their athleticism got to us. They took us out of everything we do offensively; we weren't able to get into any kind of a flow right from the tip.

This is not the case of a pampered athlete. This is not a case or a situation where someone said, 'Hey, I played ball. You need to treat me differently.' He took it like a man.