Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.
Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.
The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.
We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.
Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.
Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.
The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. . . . as a group blacks must give up their illusions.
You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.
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.
My athletes always follow my advice. . . unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.
Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.
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.
Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.
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.
Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.
What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.
The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
One of the things I want. . . all the kids here to remember, is that these [Major League Soccer] stars were not born superstar athletes. . . Many of them started out just like many of you-playing on a team at school, or just kicking a ball around on the playground with their friends. But they stuck with it. And I tell this to my girls all the time. I mean, you get to the point when. . . things you enjoy. . . start getting hard-that's when you know you're getting good, and you have to stick through it.