856 Quotes About Athletes

... to pause is to win & to rest can actually be part of the victory.

The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection You could limit your human existence to filling your shape with a muscle("Tennis")

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

There is about world-class athletes carving out exemptions from physical laws a transcendent beauty that makes manifest God in man.

Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and then went on their way rejoicing.

One of these days I’m going to be surrounded by so many young gifted athletes. There must be something in the water, because everyone’s kid is a prodigy of some kind, except for mine. Gomer is a bit of a lumberer on the soccer field, and when Adolpha practices her ballet, she has the grace of a baby giraffe. They’re so like their mother. I couldn’t be prouder of my little underachievers.

To the athlete, all things are forgiven

It's critical that as the host nation, Canadian athletes have spectacular results.

I'm very pleased with our men's performances. It makes a big statement for the program with where we've been and the direction that we're heading in. Today has been a great accomplishment for our athletes and the school.