#athlete

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#advice #anything #athlete #coaches #dictate

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#athlete #being #body #how #know

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#cannot #dreams #head #heart #his

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#alone #athlete #center #coaches #doctors

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#academics #athletes #both #caricatures #expert

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man. ↗

— Rickey Henderson

#baseball #done #father #happy #house

It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives. We were not designed to stand still. If we were, we'd have at least three legs. We were designed to move. Our bodies are bodies that have walked across vast continents. Our bodies are bodies that have carried objects of art and war over great distances. We are no less mobile than our ancestors. We are athletes. We are warriors. We are human. ↗

— John Bingham

#inspirational #running #running-for-mortals #art

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete. ↗

— Brian Bosworth

#football #frustrated #getting #i #into

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#against #athletes #difficulty #great #important

The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans. ↗

— Drew Brees

#athlete #be the first #cap #chosen #city