I love to experiment with my looks and dresses on and off the court because I love to turn out very well. But, I must add here that just good-looking athletes can’t do anything for their sport.
In the fun house of today’s metastisizing sports-entertainment megaplex, when every day brings another story revealing how these ‘heroes’ we create are fashioned from base clay, a pause might be in order to reflect on athletes who actually embodied the qualities we think we admire in the too-easily deified.
The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we’ve done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they’re responsible for their actions and their play.
Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don’t get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we’re almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
One of my favorite topics to read about my whole life has just been famous athletes, and a lot of those have been combat athletes.
With athletes, it’s never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
I’m truly excited to be a part of the Reebok family. What really comes through when working with Reebok team is that they live and breathe fitness. They have an incredible heritage in training and know exactly what it takes to help athletes be as fit as they can be.
I must learn to adapt, or else I’ll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.
I mean, no one has ever gotten to see what it’s like to be a WWE Diva. Yes, we are all a bunch of athletes and we have to get down on the ring, but we also have to attend photo shoots and red carpets.
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
I moved to Los Angeles, and ‘The Office’ became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes.
No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.
We do think founders should be treated like athletes, going for gold really hard.
As athletes, we love to say, ‘Just one more; I’m going to figure it out on this next one.’ It’s tough to pull back the reins and do what is smart physically, listening to your body and always ending a workout or session feeling like I could have done more.
Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it’s really the athletes that come in No. 1 on the cool scale. Maybe musicians after that. Community theater? That’s way down the list, my friend.
In my background in sports, I am huge believer in statistics and I think that’s one area where in wrestling we’ve seen some cool stuff get over. To me, I think there’s real opportunities to do some interesting things just in terms of building up athletes the way UFC has as legitimate competition.
After I won in Beijing I chatted with a lot of Indian athletes and they were interested and keen to know what I did. They all thought that I had some sort of secret for success, but I just wanted them to understand and realize that the biggest secret is: there is no secret.
You’d like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.
As athletes, you always know that mistakes happen, and not everyone is perfect, and you can’t be perfect.
Sportswear and activewear have been evolving over the years, and what makes it interesting is how you reflect the culture in which we’re living in – whether it’s creating clothing for a certain sport or creating new materials that we think athletes or people who are physical want to wear.
Considering the relatively brief careers of professional athletes, teenagers who are good enough to play at the highest level should be able to exploit that market.
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.
So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
Sports in Indonesia aren’t being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don’t match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
It’s empowering and uplifting to hear the Special Olympics athletes share their journey and what’s helped them to get to where they are today. I had no idea how much I’d learn and grow by taking part in Special Olympics. It’s made me think about my own journey and what’s important in life.
As athletes, it’s our responsibility to help. It’s easy for us to go out and affect people’s lives in so many different ways. We don’t even know how much we can touch people and change the direction of somebody’s future.
As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
I think athletes in general are actors. We perform in front of big crowds. People pay to come see you play. So, people come see you to basically act.
Some athletes take what we have for granted. They kind of feel, ‘I’m here, and I earned this, so people who are not on this level should just give me what I want and move out the way.’
I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.
The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.
It happens too frequently that after a couple of poor performances, athletes are dumped. That’s unfair as Olympic glory is a long path.
It’s so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.
I think people have a misconception of athletes when they think about what goes through their heads, you know what I’m saying?
You need to go near to the people and actually sensitize them about the sport – specifically running. If athletes can go near their fans, many people would develop a love for running.
It’s not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year sustain a traumatic brain injury, and about 50,000 of them die each year, according the Centers for Disease Control. There are both emotional and financial costs from these injuries.
I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.
International Amateur Atheletic Federation had selected me in 1985 and 1986 as one of the best eight athletes in the world.
As athletes, the biggest asset that we bring to the workplace is our work ethic, our confidence, our never-say-die attitude. We’re about winning.
I have met a lot of athletes who were on the top of their sport, and then sat around and did nothing. They just didn’t know what to do.
When I come to a baseball game, I appreciate the athleticism of these top-tier athletes. When they come to our shows, it’s the same thing.
I found a great trainer in Miami with Dodd Romero, who’s worked with a lot of celebrities and athletes. We built a good program for me for training and for me to work on my nutrition and things like that.
I always thought the list needed to be longer. We needed to have a stronger representation of Jewish athletes, and I’m so happy to that I’m part of them now.
When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.
I started Athletes vs Cancer as a way to honor my mother, but now giving back has become a part of who I am, and more importantly, this is a key value I hope to pass on to my own sons.
It should be easier for athletes to be students.
It’s important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they’ll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.
It is so important that our federation stands by our athletes.
As a coach, I am committed to not only developing well-rounded athletes but also good human beings.
I think, as athletes, we’ve been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you’ve been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share… His truth in love.
