Greatest Athlete Quotes

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.

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

We have seen some of the greatest athletes fall because they have tried to take shortcuts. I'm not going to call any names but we talk about guys that was like at the top of their game that people just idolized. They looked in awe and all of a sudden you see them just come tumbling down because they want to take shortcuts. I think it's more rewarding when you do it the old fashioned way.

I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

I think boxers are the greatest athletes in all sports for the simple fact that they don't cry. That is mind-blowing. Have you ever been punched in the nose? Oh my gosh, it hurts so bad. They have to go back to corner, where some little man yells at them. 'Shut up, I just got punched in the face!'... If I was a boxer, do you know who I would hire as my corner man? My mom.

The principle is competing against yourself.

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

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

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

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

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

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

You can't put a limit anything.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

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.

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

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

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

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.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

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

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

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.