Athlete Quotes - Page 34

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.

I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer.

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.

(On returning to Austin to run at his collegiate stadium) It is almost like coming home with the crowd, the people, and it just brings it home for me. For me, it is a very special place, it is great energy, and again I always seem to run very well here. So I love coming back.

(On winning the 800 meters in front of the home fans) I was really excited to come back here. Of course you are always a little nervous because you never know how the race is going to unfold, plus it is the first one of the season as well. I was really excited to come out and perform today. I give special thanks to Mario Sategna and The University of Texas for all of their support.

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.

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

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

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

We're not meant to do it on our own. We're meant to do life with God and with each other. I've been fortunate to have friends that are willing to invest in me even on the days when I'm not able to invest back into them. I'm thankful for people that have that selfless attitude and have helped me become a successful person and a successful athlete.

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.