Browsing Topic Best Best Athlete Quotes

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I’m joking, they’re almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.

You are worth so much more than points on a scoreboard or wins vs. losses. The best athletes I know are also some of the best people I’ve ever met.

I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.

The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete’s physical success.

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.

To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you’re around the best athletes in the world, and having the whole world watching.

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

I try to be a smart quarterback. I’m not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn’t the best looking guy, I wasn’t the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don’t forget. I was a junior looking through my mother’s stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.

To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.

It’s all about the journey, not the outcome.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can’t say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world’s best athletes.