#athletes

Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational. ↗

— Evelyn Ashford

#answer #ask #athletes #been #both

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#because #before #both #dated #deal

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. ↗

— Larry Bird

#athletes #greatest #i #mean #world

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them. ↗

— Yohan Blake

#i #need #other #running #scare

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#athletes #biggest #came #carry #comes

I think there's going to be pressure on all the British athletes. It's a home Olympics at the end of the day. I like adrenaline, that's something I feed off. I'm just going to go out there and do my best. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athletes #best #british #day #end

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it. ↗

— Ralph Boston

#anything #athletes #beat #big #big issue

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful. ↗

— Linford Christie

#because #been #i #i think #me

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#athletes #beaten #been #could #different

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#american dream #athletes #centuries #dream #gateway