Most athletes get intimidated once they see how many fans are out there, but it almost calms me down in a way because I think of it as a fun way to show off what I’ve been working on.
Do I have fat cells on my body? Everybody has fat cells. Do I have more than most other athletes? Probably.
We are doing very well for our country internationally, but when we are in Jamaica, our athletes are not being looked after. We are selling our country and marketing our country to the world and not being paid for it.
Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don’t win races. Athletes do.
I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.
There was a time when only athletes had sneakers. Entertainers having sneakers, on any level, is a blessing.
Africa has proven to produce some of the greatest athletes in the world, and it’s a joy to be able to help grow that talent and create a space for African youth to learn.
It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.
Being able to train and compete alongside the WWE – which houses some of the world’s most talented athletes – is an amazing opportunity.
Being a part of the Six Star team means I get to be a part of a fierce group of female athletes who have shown women that the right supplements can help us reach our fitness goals.
Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.
Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.
Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed ‘gangstas,’ minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?
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.
It’s the duty of the federations to make sure that the funds reach the athletes properly. They need to make sure that the athletes get proper facilities so that they can win the medals for the country.
The fear among athletes and organizers is that sailing is becoming more associated with silver hair than silver trophies.
What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
I think many fighters could go pro in another sport. When it really boils down to it, it’s because we are the best athletes in the world.
What keeps athletes going is the optimism we are going to be able to compete again.
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute’s silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.
Eric has pro athletes on both sides of his family – plus, I used to play sports – so I’m sure our son will develop athletic ability.
Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.
The sad thing is that I know no athletes’ names. I am not a sports girl at all.
My exercise is pall-bearin’ for athletes and food faddists.
One thing I’ve learned, and I don’t really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I’ve seen it with athletes, I’ve seen it with musicians, you know?
Athletes are extremists. When they’re training, it’s laser focus.
The beautiful thing about cycling is that it is so accessible and that pleased me when I was younger because you felt like you could almost touch the athletes.
Most pro athletes are super competitive, super clutch, and they don’t want to lose at anything.
Eventually I will own my own company and will provide advice to athletes and artists from the entertainment industry.
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.
As a girl, I was a member of Birchfield Harriers, who had Kathy Cook, Tessa Sanderson and Sonia Lannaman in their team. Those were some of the finest athletes in the country, so it was great to see them up close.
We’re often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.
You look at all the athletes who come out of high school and college into professional sports. And they hit it big, they make money, and instead of saving their money, instead of doing the right thing, they go out and buy the biggest house, and the finest car, and then they get hurt, and it’s gone.
People don’t really understand how important our voices are. I think there’s a lot of athletes that don’t use their power that really should.
I definitely think the way the game is transforming, becoming more and more athletic, guys are great athletes out here and relying on the physical skills more than their tennis skills, almost, sometimes. So for that reason, matching up with some of these guys, I can’t keep up.
I don’t think it’s up to black athletes to get involved in political or racial issues.
I’m as proud as the next guy, but I’ve always been a little skeptical of the daddies who walk around talking about what great athletes their kids are.
Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.
I think the American sports culture has the idea that professional athletes need so much, like flying private planes, which obviously we don’t, but that’s the American sports culture when they think of the NFL and the NBA.
To stand up to worldwide competition, we need a very strong set-up at home that produces athletes right from the beginner’s level and has the sustained back-up for the same athlete to finally go and win an Olympic medal.
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
People love video games because they do things they obviously can’t do in real life. That’s especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best.
There is nothing wrong with athletes coming back from retirement.
I enjoy wrestling. I enjoy the sport. I get to go against the world’s best athletes.
A lot of people who’ve been athletes have come here and not been able to just pick it up right away. I hate using this example, and I love her to death, but Eva Marie. She was an amazing soccer player and athlete, but coming to WWE and getting in the ring was a whole different ball game for her.
Everyone, especially athletes and fans everywhere, need to make sunscreen and sun protection a priority.
I think every promoter’s job is to pump their athletes up. Like, you see, Dana White did it all the time with branding people: all of a sudden, they’re the best thing since sliced bread, just because that’s the promoter’s job.
I believe that athletes – especially female athletes in the world’s leading sport for women – should serve as role models.
When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.
For most athletes, there’s a focus on your own fitness, but I have to rely on my horse, too. I’ve been very lucky so far, and it hasn’t presented a problem, but you can never count on a competition going as planned until you’re there and actually doing it.
I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.
Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they’re also artists.
I didn’t have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.
Just imagine if women’s sport was on the TV all the time – how many more female athletes we would have?
It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it’s a business and things like that. It is a business.
That’s what it’s all about in MMA, we’re not the highest paid athletes in the world, so when you can get the big money fights you have to take them.
