A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at...
I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.
Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.
You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.
I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!
I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.
I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.
When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
The conditioning and the lifestyle changes you have to make to remain a healthy athlete are what molded me into what I am today.
