Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.
I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.
If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.
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.
Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
My life as a professional athlete has allowed me the opportunity to visit and live in many different places and meet many interesting and diverse people.
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.
Payton “Sin” Sinclair was an unapologetic people-watcher. As a sports consultant, working with some of the biggest and most recognizable athletes in sports and business, he had to be able to read the smallest nuances of others. That ability was j...
As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport.
So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.
Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga over movie and music stars, and the reverse is true with entertainers and sports stars.
Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.
Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.
