#athletes

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

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

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#ask #athletes #ball #baseball #cyclists

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#character #enjoy #general #i #speak

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#ball player #football #football player #i #kind

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#athletes #believe #children #free #future

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

— Willie Stargell

#becomes #fail #hitters #i #superior

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#bank #best #come #families #forget

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#female #limits #new #possibility #still

I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#as far as #athletes #better #black #concerned