"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."
Read quote
7 likes
Athlete quotes
Athlete
1.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Athlete
Browse quotes that often appear alongside athlete — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Athlete quotes (page 7 of 84)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder."
Read quote
7 likes
"I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list."
Read quote
7 likes
"Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education of the conscience is vital to the truly proactive, highly effective person. Training and educating the conscience, however, requires even greater concentration, more balanced discipline, more consistently honest living. It requires regular feasting on inspiring literature, thinking noble thoughts and, above all, living in harmony with its still small voice."
Read quote
7 likes
"Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands."
Read quote
7 likes
"Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small."
Read quote
7 likes
"They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it."
Read quote
7 likes
"I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail."
Read quote
7 likes
"I never claimed to be anything more than a nice guy and an athlete."
Read quote
7 likes
"The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage."
Read quote
6 likes
"People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them."
Read quote
6 likes
"Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action."
Read quote
6 likes
"Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick."
Read quote
6 likes
"If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important."
Read quote
6 likes
"Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory."
Read quote
6 likes
"I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways."
Read quote
6 likes
"The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen."
Read quote
6 likes
"Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners."
Read quote
6 likes
"I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews."
Read quote
6 likes
"I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself."
Read quote
6 likes