Quotes of: Young-athletes Keyword

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

Haile Gebrselassie

The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.

Lou Boudreau

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

Zig Ziglar

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

Dick Butkus

The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

Clara Mamet

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

Alice Dreger

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

Al McGuire

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

Ivan Lendl

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

Apolo Ohno

I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.

Adrianne Palicki

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

Axl Rose

I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.

Angela Ruggiero

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

Vivica A. Fox

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

William Standish Knowles

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

Walter Payton

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

Willie Stargell

I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

Gene Kelly

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

Marvin Olasky

What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was d...

The Long Run: One Man's Attempt to Regain His Athletic Career-And His Life-by Running the New York City Marathon

It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.

Gemma Arterton

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare