Athlete Quotes
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.
What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.
I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.
If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.
The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.
Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.
You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.
Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing
They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.
The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.
I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.
I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.
If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.
When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.
I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."
People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.
Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.
An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his: I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.
He hasn't shown me anything but how he carries himself as a professional man, husband, father and athlete. Tom Brady is a pro's pro. I love the man and everything he's accomplished.
The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
I don't mind being a professional. As an athlete you are a role model, people are watching what you wear, listening to everything you say.
If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
