Pro Athlete Quotes

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. ~ Leigh Steinberg

When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet, ~ Jason Collins

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball. ~ Michael Jordan

Being a pro athlete doesn't mean you treat your body right, even though it's so important to what you do. Being a runner and training for important races has taught me more about how to fuel than swimming ever did. I realize it's a process and part of the commitment. ~ Summer Sanders

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty. ~ Joe Manganiello

Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture. ~ Kendrick Lamar

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling. ~ Jamie Foxx

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete. ~ Nash Grier

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much. ~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life. ~ Sarah Palin

I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete. ~ Kate Voegele

The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt. ~ Steven Pressfield

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
[Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!] ~ Plautus

You can't be pro-labor and anti-business. ~ Bobby Schilling

Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life. ~ Rick Santorum

I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus! ~ Dick Butkus

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery. ~ Frederick Douglass

Treat yourself like a fast person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck
you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.
Push: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, p. 214 ~ Chalene Johnson

Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us. May the Games be held in peace, in the true spirit of the Olympic Truce. Athletes of the 80 national Olympic committees, show us that sport unites by overcoming national, political, religious and language barriers. You can show us a world we all long for. ~ Jacques Rogge

I don't drink. I don't kiss girls. These things do an athlete in. ~ Suleiman Nyambui

Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Steve Young: Here's a guy that is really a talent. He's the best athlete we ever had. He could run, he developed into a good thrower. He's smart. He's intense. He could make it in the movies. Really, he's got it all. He was coachable, but he had his own ideas. He never let up, not even in practice. I'd take Steve Young every year. ~ LaVell Edwards

Remember, every pro was first an amateur. Start your dream now! ~ Marie Forleo

I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Jews in Israel for the second coming. ~ Jill Soloway

We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games. ~ Louise Erickson

Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era. ~ Douglas Brinkley

I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside. ~ William Shatner

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right
it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don't. ~ Dot Richardson

I'm calm and focused and I can't wait for the biggest sport event in the World to begin. ~ Benjamin Boukpeti

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of. ~ Paula Radcliffe

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. ~ Chris Brasher

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. ~ Kobe Bryant

The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line. ~ Brian Boitano

It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing. ~ Michiel Huisman

I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe. ~ Griffin Dunne

I usually have a title in mind before I start. ~ Frank Bruno

I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go. ~ Katie Hoff

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart. ~ Jeremiah

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. ~ Jack Kemp

I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical. ~ Sharni Vinson

My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person. ~ Gianluigi Buffon

We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices. ~ Hillary Clinton

I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for. ~ Emmitt Smith

I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete ~ Libby Trickett

But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an extreme example, or even to a low level of the pie, than the effect of that situation is that free immigration, would mean a reduction of everybody to the same, uniform level. Of course, I'm exaggerating, it wouldn't go quite that far, but it would go in that direction. And it is that perception, that leads people to adopt what at first seems like inconsistent values. ~ Milton Friedman

I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models. ~ Claudia Rankine

I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs. ~ Jenny Lewis

True champions arent always the ones that win,but those with the most guts. ~ Mia Hamm