#athletes

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#athletes #bred #good #guess #horse

We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place. ↗

— Otto Schily

#been #berlin #best #city #decision

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#athletes #based #competition #excitement #generated

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#beings #forget #human #human beings #often

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness ↗

— Donald Bradman

#athletes #dignity #sportsman #courage

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#be happy #decent #earn #education #effort

I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#athletes #big #i #i always #liked

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids. ↗

— Candace Parker

#dropped #father #get #kids #male

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then? ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#any #athletes #been #close #come

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#american family #architects #assembled #athletes #billionaires