Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.
I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.
If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run.
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Doing multiple character work is athletic in every way - vocally, physically, spiritually, and mentally. With a show like 'Passing Strange,' I usually lose about 12 pounds.
It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.
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.
Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.
Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
'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.
In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.
The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys.
I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.
I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.
