I’m a professional athlete, I’m a businesswoman and I know who I am. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
Professional sports are something they can't control. — Troy Vincent
To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete. — Rory McIlroy
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. — Junior Seau
A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game. — Al Davis
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage
Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete. — Linford Christie
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day. — Phil Knight
People complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don't understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money. — Patrick Ewing
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not. — George A. Sheehan
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. — Bill Russell
Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best. — J. J. Watt
I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club. — Alison Sweeney
Short Professional Athlete Quotes
I'm not like a full athlete. But I'm definitely a boxer. — Logan Paul
Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game. — Chico Resch
I am simply the very best sports entertainer — Shawn Michaels
I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion. — Idi Amin
I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live. — Usain Bolt
I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete. — Shawn Johnson
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible. — Lance Armstrong
Every artist was first an amateur.
Becoming A Professional Athlete Quotes
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. — Robert A. Heinlein
I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete. — Wayne Gretzky
Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things. — LeBron James
Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.
The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective. — Frank Shorter
I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate. — Brian J. White
I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for. — Emmitt Smith
Athlete Winning Quotes
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition. — John Smith
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism. — Abebe Bikila
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell
To double your success, triple what you spend on personal development and professional learning. The person who know the most becomes the best.
It's all about the journey, not the outcome. — Carl Lewis
I want to see Ronda coming back, her finishing her career with a win. Every athlete deserves that. — Amanda Nunes
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus. — Carl Lewis
I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant. — Alberto Tomba
Pro Athlete Quotes
I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. — Walter Payton
Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk. — Bill Maher
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. — Randy Moss
"I've always been a proponent of "if you're going to do something, do it right." I applied that across all aspects of my shooting - planning, setting up shoots, getting up early, working with athletes and models, working with clients etc. Just being a pro about it. — Jimmy Chin
Do I midnight snack? Not a lot, but sometimes. And it's usually Doritos Cooler Ranch. I know that's terrible, especially for a pro athlete, but they're just so good. — Clint Mathis
The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich. — Fran Tarkenton
Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture. — Kendrick Lamar
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball. — Michael Jordan
A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it. — Dan Jenkins
The principle is competing against yourself. — Steve Young
Professional Sports Quotes
Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions. — Roddy Piper
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it. — Dan Gable
I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships. — Hope Solo
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports. — Arthur Ashe
I think the industry brings out probably the best individuals in the sport that can encourage and motivate people to be all they can be. — Martyn Ford
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. — Gregg Easterbrook
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids. — Jim Sensenbrenner
Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them. — Julius Erving
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. — Dominick Cruz
Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college and I guess I agreed with them or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got. — Joe Namath
Athlete Quotes
Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is. — Fidel Castro
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. — Mia Hamm
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. — Muhammad Ali
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson
A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that — Dan Gable
The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish. — Adrian Rogers
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. — Dan Gable
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. — Lou Holtz
Nfl Players Quotes
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler. — Jack Lambert
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job. — Bill Walsh
We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here. — Al Davis
I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player. — Robert Griffin III
A guy like Malcolm who makes that type of quick, instinctive plays, that's one of his strong suits. I don't think it surprised any of us players because that's what his skill set is. — Tom Brady
Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts. — Jim Brown
Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. God Bless everyone and thank u so much. — Adrian Peterson
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. — Bill Peterson
Student Athlete Quotes
I could have skated by as an athlete, but the world is so much bigger and more interesting than any one thing. I didn't want to be pigeonholed as just a jock. I'm also an author, a student of history, and I collect memorabilia from the Wild West. I'm also a son, a father, and a friend. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university. — Earl Campbell
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. — Milton Friedman
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student. — James S. Coleman
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. — Clark Kerr
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow. — Steve Lacy
By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be. — Billy Kennedy
My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people. — Jennie Finch
Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential. — Hyrum W. Smith
While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later. — Fred Perry
Olympic Athlete Quotes
After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job. — Jesse Owens
I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself. — Jesse Owens
The potential for greatness lives within us all. — Wilma Rudolph
The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line. — Brian Boitano
Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it. — Mary Lou Retton
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work — Andre Agassi
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. — Clara Hughes
Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls. — Richard Attias
I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve. — Dick Fosbury
The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport. — Natalie Cook
Baseball Player Quotes
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. — Harry Caray
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens. — Tommy Lasorda
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. — Tommy Lasorda
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back. — Ben Chandler
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. — Pierre Trudeau
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. — Chuck Tanner
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? — Jim Bouton
I'm a firm believer in... just because these guys are professional athletes or whatever, everybody's going to have an opinion on something, and not everybody's going to get along. I've had my words with fans on Twitter too. — Dana White
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. — Major Taylor
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models. — Charles Barkley
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. — Tom Seaver
The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel. — Thomas Sowell
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment. — Bobby Hull
As a professional athlete, I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before. And not one of them has ever hurt me in a fist-fight, either. The only thing that has helped me is my skills and the only thing that hurt me is my opponent's skills. — Chael Sonnen
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. — John Kruk
We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that. — Bobby Orr
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them. — Matthew Modine
There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete. — Carl Lewis
I have been blessed with a long and healthy career as a professional athlete and as I move forward into the next stage of my life, chiropractic care will continue to be an important part of my game. — Jerry Rice
There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with. — Robert Griffin III
My heritage is something that I have always been aware of, however, some would say that there is a disproportionately low number of Asians as professional athletes. I take pride in trying my best to be a role model to show young Asian American boys and girls that they are only limited by the size of their dreams. — Nathan Adrian
When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do. — Bob Gibson
I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay. Just the second I think I know what I'm doing, the rug gets pulled out and I have no idea what I'm doing. Because there are so many problems to solve. — Stacy Peralta
As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives. — Hope Solo
society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex? — Sydney Biddle Barrows
Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete! — Kanye West
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. — Wayne Gretzky
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired. — Oscar De La Hoya
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone. — Malcolm Gladwell
We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not. — Rafael Nadal
I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can. — Hidetoshi Nakata
Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder. — Tracy Anderson
Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man's game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don't even have to do that - and they get to wear sneakers. — Mitzi Gaynor
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control. — Charles Barkley
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. — Jose Canseco
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. — Leigh Steinberg
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. — Leigh Steinberg
The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete. — Dennis Rodman
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. — LeBron James
I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company. — Tim Ferriss
You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult. — Robin Yount
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