It takes about eight years to develop as an Olympic athlete, very few athletes actually who go there win medal in their first Games.
I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.
In track years… track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it’s really difficult.
I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
I’m aware of the rift in the locker room. That’s just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.
Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.
To try to prey on athletes’ livelihoods while one is going through a tough time is embarrassing to me.
I think it’s very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
Money has changed today’s black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.
A lot of athletes are stuck on themselves and don’t want to socialize and that kind of thing. When I see that, I hate it.
If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.
I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.
I think there’s going to be pressure on all the British athletes. It’s a home Olympics at the end of the day. I like adrenaline, that’s something I feed off. I’m just going to go out there and do my best.
Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it’s great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.
People think kickers in general kick field goals. But kickers are actually good athletes; we run and work out just like the rest of the football team.
Most athletes, we’re the good ol’ boys, part of the good-ol’-boy fraternity, and we take care of our brothers, and we cover up the bad habit and the bad play.
I explain to athletes, you’re supposed to be a well-oiled machine. You’re supposed to be in better shape than the people watching you. You’re supposed to be an unbelievable specimen of a human being. You have to treat your body different while you’re performing.
Making it financially does not protect you, though. Genetic gifts and a gigantic professional contract do not shield athletes from the effect of damaged childhoods.
I’ll say there’s a lot of good athletes out there, but the key thing that I see missing is being able to put it all together in order to tell a story. In every match you can tell a story.
It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.
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.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, being ref is a very tough job – managing 10 of the best athletes in the world. At the same time, I think there is way too much ego from their standpoint.
That’s really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that’s allowing them to reach their full potential.
It’s interesting. I’ve known quite a few good athletes that can’t begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.
Marciano was an idol in a simpler era, when professional athletes were heroes and sportswriters were complicit in building legends rather than exposing them. To the public, all that really mattered was that Rocky had 49 wins in 49 fights and retired in 1956 as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world.
As athletes, we’re defined by what we’ve accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together – failures as an athlete and as a person.
It eventually ends, and that’s what I think a lot of athletes forget. It’s 10 years after the Olympics, and you won the Olympics, and that’s great, but no one cares.
We’re professional athletes. I feel like I got treated better in college wrestling. I had a physical therapist on hand at all times, no matter what, when I was in college.
At age 12, or even eight or nine, athletes were my role models. So when I would say I wanted to be the best, it was just because I was seeing my idols and wanted to do that. I don’t think it necessarily was the most realistic thought process.
Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.
It’s common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known or understood is how the advent of these riches has seeped into the conscious and unconscious ways in which our society now parents children.
If pro athletes and entertainers want to freelance as political pundits, then they should not be surprised when they’re called out for insulting politicians.
Well, any time I’m preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it’s as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.
American athletes, especially distance runners, are at a big disadvantage against the rest of the world. We’re expected to live by all the rules, like not being able to coach, but still train and make our own living.
Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves – what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don’t know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
The UFC makes 80, and athletes make 20. That’s what happens. That’s the real story.
You have someone like Colin or many of the other athletes who have knelt, especially athletes of colour, and if you’re not respecting what they’re saying, if you’re not believing their charges of police brutality or racial inequality, you’re saying that they’re lying.
To have the athletes weigh in on a stage, televised, it makes no sense. Holding us at weight to run us through medicals and a staging process, it lengthens the time we’re depleting ourselves.
When you compete with better athletes, you also get better.
I am excited by the opportunity to join such an extraordinary group of athletes and be a part of the ‘Lucha Underground’ family.
Unfortunately, we don’t have the luxury of being paid like NBA, NFL and soccer and baseball athletes. They have that cushion where they can kind of hang out. Even the guys on the bench. But for us, we don’t fight, we don’t get paid and that’s the scary reality to it all.
‘Suena’ is what the essence of the Olympics are about. There are the best athletes in the world up on one stage. The love and admiration and respect for each other is amazing to see.
U.S. and Russia – both coach their athletes from the grassroots level on and provide scientific training.
Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.
Once you’re past the age of, say, 11, you should stop idolizing athletes. You look ridiculous wearing the jersey of a guy who is younger and wealthier than you are.
I like to take on athletes who have issues with me.
The psychology of performance in athletic footwear and apparel is very real. Most athletes do not say, ‘Just give me what works the best – I don’t care what it looks like.’ They’re very concerned with what it looks like and how it makes them feel.
Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.
I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.
Yoga, meditation, and unplugging the phone at night to make sure I get enough hours of sleep. That’s huge for athletes.
I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission – say, of retired judges – to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.
In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.
The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism – it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world.
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.
Athletes like me, PT Usha, Anju Bobby Gerorge have reached finals in Olympics, and it’s not easy to reach the finals. If Indians were genetically inferior then we wouldn’t have reached even finals.
