Great Athlete Quotes

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

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.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.

Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.

But as much as I am personally proud for winning five championships, I'm equally proud just being part of a women's division that has gotten so much better with all these great athletes here.

We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.

I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends and I want all my friends to be different. I want to play six instruments. I want to be the best in the world at two things. I want to be a great athlete and I want to be a great surgeon. I need to practice very hard every day. I need to sleep as little as possible. I need to read at least one major book every week. And I need to remember that my seventy years are going to go by too quickly.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the first round. I've learned to be patient, skillful in the ring. At the same time, I wanted to prove to other boxers that you can take off this killer instinct stuff, you can be a great athlete, a great boxer, and love your brother.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes in space making plays and that's when the game becomes beautiful. You have spacing and skill and coaching. It's all synergetic. You don't have to be a basketball fan to appreciate that. You can be a person who appreciates movement. It's almost like a ballet at that point.

You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.

Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

There are a lot of young great athletes out there; they're much better athletes than what we were. They're bigger, faster, stronger, unfortunately, there're fewer places to go.

You can tell everybody that Eddie Robinson's out looking for a job right now, and believe me, he's a great kid. He's happy and he's healthy. All he needs is a couple of weeks to regain game fitness. Put him on the court and when the game counts ... Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing. He's a great athlete, and I love him to death.

When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.

The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive power, you have to be a great athlete to have all these, his body, his look, you know, all these things have to do with discipline and structure. He was able to go against the biggest guy, regardless of who he was.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. The Seven Faces of Intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance, and receptivity. And all seven are expressions of what I imagine that source to look like. The very fact that we exist is proof to me that the nature of that source is creative at its core. And there isn't a person reading this who does not have a gnawing sense inside that there's something they're here to do, something creative.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.