#athlete

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star. ↗

— Linford Christie

#athletes #coaches #country #deliver #facilities

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance. ↗

— David Cone

#athlete #bat #care #chance #coming

I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that. ↗

— Libby Trickett

#because #better #during #emotionally #i

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#created #games #individual #olympic #olympic games

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed. ↗

— Anita Desai

#day #effort #every #every day #honed

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. ↗

— Martha Graham

#athlete #becomes #dance #dancing #god

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports. ↗

— Stedman Graham

#after #athlete #because #going #life

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#athletes #capable #elite #handful #physically

I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer. ↗

— Lisa Guerrero

#going #i #peer #relate

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#endurance #especially #fully #level #never