Athletes Loving Their Sport Quotes

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists. ~ Neve Campbell

By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport. We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty. ~ Svetlana Boginskaya

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America. ~ David Stern

In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs. ~ Patrick Chan

I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. ~ Earl Campbell

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes. ~ John Murray

Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'. ~ Jenny Meadows

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete. ~ Frederick Lenz

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly. ~ Michael Waltrip

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage. ~ George Will

There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown. ~ William Shakespeare

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline. ~ Seal

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.' ~ Haile Gebrselassie

Bone formation is stimulated by skeletal loading, and calcium supplementation could be more important for swimmers than for other athletes due to the low-impact nature of the sport. Calcium ~ Dave Salo

Some of the world's best athletes didn't start out being that hot. If you have a passion for a sport, put in the effort and see. ~ Carol S. Dweck

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures. ~ A. Bartlett Giamatti

I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university. ~ Earl Campbell

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. ~ Dennis Rodman

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport. ~ Clara Hughes

I think we have tremendous media covering the sport of boxing, even if boxing is a little bit lost in popularity with MMA sports. And I think that with the show 'Lights Out' it's going to get more attention to the sport, and it's going to put more attention to the problems that athletes in general have. ~ Wladimir Klitschko

There is about world-class athletes carving out exemptions from physical laws a transcendent beauty that makes manifest God in man. ~ David Foster Wallace

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate. ~ Bill James

All things old become new again. In my youth the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald. ~ Harley King

Statistically, athletes with solid family units have better stamina, more purpose, better mental health, and overall improved performance than athletes who are either divorced or unmarried. ~ Amy Harmon

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. ~ Nancy Greene

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it. ~ Willie Stargell

There are not a lot of athletes that are going to get their own shoe. ~ Keyshawn Johnson

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports. ~ Scott Bakula

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits. ~ Mike Vallely

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it. ~ Bill Toomey

Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met. ~ Don King

Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me. ~ Magic Johnson

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists. ~ Andy Murray

It's funny, because athletes want to be rockers and vice versa. ~ Matt Willig

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage. ~ Axl Rose

I think when young kids can see Jason Collins, myself and Michael Sam, and Abby Wambach and Megan Rapinoe and different athletes come out, it will definitely change and encourage younger gay men and women to play the sport. ~ Robbie Rogers

There is nothing wrong with athletes coming back from retirement. ~ George Vecsey

Too many athletes do not admit their weaknesses. ~ Bill Toomey

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. ~ Gordie Howe

Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts. ~ Asafa Powell

Athletes are very cool to me. ~ Regina King

Don't love to be loved in return. Love for the sake of loving. ~ Connor Chalfant

I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players. ~ Brian O'Driscoll

Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can. ~ C. J. Wilson

The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success. ~ Jozy Altidore

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes. ~ Ruud Gullit

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport. ~ Tyson Gay

The upper echelon of adventure sport athletes are grappling with the fundamental properties of the universe: gravity, velocity and sanity. They're toying with them, cheating death, refusing to accept there might be limits to what they can accomplish. ~ Steven Kotler

The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians. ~ Richard Attias

As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck. ~ Landon Donovan

Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes. ~ Ato Boldon

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes. ~ Mary Lou Retton

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain. ~ Taylor Branch

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously. ~ Lisa Guerrero

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes. ~ Curt Schilling

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react. ~ Jennifer Beals

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity. ~ Jackson Katz

Many endurance athletes insist on waking up super early to train. I am not one of those athletes. I'm a runner, not a f*cking werewolf. ~ Matthew Inman

The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes is an excellent book for student athletes to understand what it takes to be successful. It covers all phases of life, and it is filled with wonderful wisdom. Illustrated by brilliant examples of very successful people, The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes forces student athletes to use their common sense as they work to achieve their goals. Raven Magwood is a very talented person and an extremely gifted writer. ~ Danny Ford

Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House. ~ Jimmie Johnson

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen. ~ Leigh Steinberg

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all. ~ Lolo Jones

Models are like athletes: You burn hard and fast. ~ Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it. ~ Maurice Greene

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out. ~ Arthur Lydiard

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you. ~ Nick Nolte

I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play. ~ Angela Ruggiero

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest. ~ Colson Whitehead

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do. ~ Kobe Bryant

Today's workers need to approach the workplace much like athletes preparing for the Olympics, with one difference. They have to prepare like someone who is training for the Olympics but doesn't know what sport they are going to enter, ~ Thomas L. Friedman

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it. ~ Jeff Ross

Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and then went on their way rejoicing. ~ E. M. Forster

Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal. ~ Robin S. Sharma

There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s. ~ Dolph Lundgren

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks. ~ Roger Bannister

I think pro-athletes should be forced to use steroids. I think we as fans deserve the greatest athletes science can create! Lets go! Anything that will make you run faster, jump higher! I have High-Definition TV! I want my athletes like my video games! Lets go! I could care less if you die at 40. You hate life after sports anyways. I'm doing you a favor. ~ Daniel Tosh

Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected. ~ George Vecsey

Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes. ~ Lorrie Fair

Acceptance of the danger is of the essence for playing a quality sport. ~ Pawan Mishra

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances. ~ Manu Bennett

My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that. ~ Sebastian Coe

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy. ~ Chris Cleave

I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied. ~ Shane Koyczan

The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event. ~ Kim Yuna

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. ~ Frida Kahlo

The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing. ~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings. ~ Willie Stargell

Top athletes are like warriors. ~ Lily James

Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did. ~ Summer Sanders

There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family. ~ Kristopher Belman

The real problem here is a massive elephant in the room: our own culture. Our social values, our media - so influential on impressionable young girls - that have been allowed, for millenia, to send out this powerful, alienating message about girls and sport: that sport is unfeminine, that sport makes you sweaty and muscular, that sport is swearing and violence, that sport is ugliness in a world where women's sole priority, value and focus should be beauty and becoming an object of desire. ~ Anna Kessel

Still loving the sport; still working on the focus. ~ Phillip Thomas

No matter how much you hate love, it will never hate back. ~ Connor Chalfant

The value of the sport and the value of sports in general, with the life lessons, the ups and downs. The depth of the life experience, what athletes are actually offering to us when they come out and play, if you look at a season and go moment by moment. ~ Willi Smith

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality. ~ Armstrong Williams

I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad. ~ Ricky Williams

But problems are not to be feared. Problems are not curses. Problems
are simply tough games for the athletes of the mind and true athletes
always long to get a game going. ~ Steve Chandler

It is to create the best Games the world has ever seen by unlocking the UK's unrivalled passion for sport, by delivering the best Games for athletes to compete in, by showcasing London's unmatched cultural wealth and diversity and by creating a real and lasting legacy. ~ Sebastian Coe

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

I need to take loving to the extreme, as if it were a sport requiring a helmet and parachute. I wonder if @redbull would sponsor me. ~ Jarod Kintz