I’m continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.
Just having what’s important, to have people around you to support and take care of you. That’s the most important thing when you are a professional athlete.
I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.
No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.
One thing about me is that my parents didn’t force me to be an athlete.
I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.
Of all the four major sports, whether you like Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, maybe you like Bobby Orr, or you like Larry Bird or Tom Brady – Bill Russell is the greatest athlete to play in Boston.
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.
It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.
My background is as an athlete, and you know, we in the Marines, when we want something, we go after it.
Ever since I was a little boy, I had my eyes set on being able to say I was a professional athlete. I worked hard every day to make sure that it became a possibility and sacrificed a lot for the game of football.
Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don’t think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he’s a big baby. If things are going well he’s great, but when things are going badly it’s the ref’s fault, it’s his teammates’ fault.
The problem with being married to an athlete who is, like, 19 feet tall and can just eat, like, 17 burgers at 11 o’clock at night is, you’re like, ‘I’ll have just three of those burgers,’ and you think you’re being good because he had 19 and you had three!
You can’t really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete’s worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.
Born on an island, I could swim before I could walk, thrown many times into swimming pools and warm transparent Caribbean waters: sink or swim, that was my first lesson. While I’m not a natural athlete, I’m still a strong swimmer and feel a great affinity with the sea.
I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I’m just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.
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.
As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
As an athlete, our platform is so high. A lot of people look up to us. So if they see us doing something positive, it can change the world.
Balancing trying to be an athlete trying to get ready for WrestleMania, training twice a day, to everything you do at the office to remembering that you have a wife and kids and everything else – it’s challenging, but you just make it happen. In some ways, it’s no different than anyone else’s life.
My athlete idol is Usain Bolt. He’s inhumanly fast!
Wrestling, it’s all about playing with people’s emotions. You need to be better than just a great athlete; you need to be the best. At one time, I might have been. When I look back, I remember how much I enjoyed it.
I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.
I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports – basketball, for example, is an activity that I’ll spend many hours a week watching.
I don’t want to say names, but there are certain companies I won’t work with because of previous people they’ve worked with. I don’t want to be put in the same category as another athlete that I don’t necessarily think is a good role model.
You are an athlete when you’re onstage. You can’t get tired.
I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the ‘hard work = payoff’ equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that’s my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.
I’m a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I’m not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don’t need to train at that level. It’s about being fit, fit for life.
I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
Acting isn’t like being an athlete. There’s no real quantifiable measure. It’s just a bunch of people feeling things.
There’s definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead.
My mum and dad are both sportspeople and know what’s it all about. They know it’s hard work, but they also know what it takes to become a professional athlete. I don’t think – without their help, I wouldn’t have got this far.
I became a process-oriented athlete; one who believed in giving it his best shot and not bothering about the outcome.
I think The Undertaker is, much like Brock Lesnar, a once-in-a-lifetime wrestler, a once-in-a-lifetime athlete, and a once-in-a-lifetime performer.
Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.
I don’t think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
What’s wrong with being a two-sport athlete? You’ve got Deion Sanders. You’ve got Bo Jackson. You’ve got Michael Jordan; he wasn’t a very good baseball player. There’s nothing wrong with crossing over.
Maybe I’m the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
I’m very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don’t want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
People tend to like an athlete’s performance, but if you don’t get a feeling for the individual, you’re not very emotive about them.
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.
I am an athlete for Christ. That’s why I play for Him, to give Him glory, to thank Him for giving me the ability to play football.
In front of the world, all of a sudden I’m a great athlete and I’m put into an environment with 25 other women and I’m expected to go to team meals, team functions.
I made Edgar Davids vice-captain. Nothing to do with colour, just because he was playing excellently and because he lives like an athlete.
To be an Olympic athlete is an honour, a privilege. They’re so respected. This is my dream. I have to do this.
I wasn’t featured in NXT. I never had a TakeOver match. I never held a title. I wasn’t a featured athlete. I knew, going in to SmackDown Live, I had to kick down the door and take every opportunity for what it was, and sometimes in WWE – and in life – those opportunities don’t come back.
I would say, look, any fighter that’s out there or any star athlete – not star athlete in the sense of a baseball player, but like a Brock Lesnar – that really wants to fight, we’re going to have a conversation with them. Because if they can move the needle, we’re going to want them on Spike TV.
I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It’s short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.
I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.
I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.
I’m not an athlete dater, really. I would get too jealous. They’re really gone all the time. Different hotel rooms.
If you’re an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you’re missing other components. Similarly, if you’re trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you’re not going to grow and develop so fast.
I’m at the point where you look back on your life and reflect. I’ve always been an unbelievable critic of me. If we lost a game, I blamed myself every night. I’m very proud of some of the things I did as an athlete, as an executive.
Maybe there’s a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get here. Yeah, I didn’t walk away with a medal or run away with a medal, but I think there’s lessons to be learned when you win and lessons to be learned when you lose.
You are an athlete if you are a dancer.
I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn’t push me and I didn’t push my children in athletics.
