My athletes always follow my advice. . . unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.
If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.
Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.
O. J. Simpson was primarily interested in O. J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more outspoken and political than in any era. You're talking about the generation of black athletes that came about after Jackie Robinson. Athletes after that were just happy to find a place in sports. But when you got to the mid-'60s, you had athletes like Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, who were very outspoken on the issues of race and civil rights.
When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.
College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.
I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.
What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.
Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts.
Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.
The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Everyone else is struggling.
I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight against that a bit.
I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.
Many dedicated endurance athletes don’t need to be told what to do – they need to be told what not to do.
I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
Too many athletes do not admit their weaknesses.
I do identify with Olympic athletes quite a lot because they have to push to reach a certain plateau and some of them go on and some of them give up and some art - you know, some people are very talented in art and do a few amazing things and then give it up and go on and do other things, and others are in it for the long haul, more or less long-distance runners.
We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.