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My parents gave up on their dreams in sports because they were athletes, and they had me at such an early age. I didn't want to do that.
Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.
Being able to train and compete alongside the WWE - which houses some of the world's most talented athletes - is an amazing opportunity.
Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys.
The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.
Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.
When I come to a baseball game, I appreciate the athleticism of these top-tier athletes. When they come to our shows, it's the same thing.
That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential.
There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.
I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.
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.
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
People don't really understand how important our voices are. I think there's a lot of athletes that don't use their power that really should.
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
A lot of people talk about the one-and-done attitude of college athletes, but if you look at the University of Kentucky, we do build winners.
In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
I was always raised as a student first and an athlete second. I think that's the main purpose in college. Some athletes lose that perspective.
We start to decline as humans and, particularly, as athletes right around 25 years old. If you're real lucky, you might push that to 27 or 28.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Special Olympics is such an empowering organization for the thousands of athletes involved and those of us like myself who lend support to them.
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.
'The Body Issue' is celebrating athletes' bodies, different sizes, different shapes... For me it's a celebration, and it's an honor to be in it.
As athletes, the biggest asset that we bring to the workplace is our work ethic, our confidence, our never-say-die attitude. We're about winning.
As athletes, just looking at it from an outside perspective, it's really remarkable, the impact you could have on somebody that you have no idea.
Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
I know firsthand the way that Fox supports their athletes because they've been there for me since the beginning. I know that I can count on them.
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
My dream is to see athletes also getting the same recognition, fame, success and money as cricketers, footballers and hockey players get in India.
For professional athletes, I always think about it in these terms: the most difficult diva of women's soccer would be the easiest NBA player ever.
You don't really get to witness what athletes go through. Like, the sacrifices and stuff like that. It's by far the most amazing, beautiful thing.
If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.
I think it's tough that we build Michael Vick up, and then we break him down. I think he's one of the superb athletes, and he's a good human being.
Amazingly, I think that a lot of times athletes are - are kind of in a position where other think they shouldn't weigh in on certain social topics.
Yea, I wrote my college thesis on why college athletes should get paid. I think there's a way to do it based on the amount of revenue they generate.
That's what it's all about in MMA, we're not the highest paid athletes in the world, so when you can get the big money fights you have to take them.
The way I play - I'm the guy moving, coming off screens, getting up and down the floor. I should be one of the better-conditioned athletes out there.
I think athletes in general are actors. We perform in front of big crowds. People pay to come see you play. So, people come see you to basically act.
There are so many world-class athletes who are great at their sport, but they're so boring. They don't talk, and they can't be interviewed very well.
Do you know how many athletes go broke three years after they stop playing? I want to help them hold on to their money. I mean, I know about budgets.
In college wrestling, you see a lot of talented athletes come in and fail because Division I class wrestling is the pinnacle of wrestling in America.
Those are the moments athletes live for - we live for those exhilarating, breathless, take-your-breath-away, you're-on-the-seat-of-your-chair moments.
I am available to work together with the commission to create clear laws that give the athletes the proper respect. The athletes deserve more respect.
People think kickers in general kick field goals. But kickers are actually good athletes; we run and work out just like the rest of the football team.
BYU I think had a philosophy of nameless, faceless athletes for the greater good of BYU which is fine. We all did our thing and we're grateful for it.
I'm as proud as the next guy, but I've always been a little skeptical of the daddies who walk around talking about what great athletes their kids are.
I see other athletes as inspiration, like Rafa Nadal, Pau Gasol, Fernando Alonso. I think they are great inspiration for youngsters and for everybody.
As athletes and pro sports franchises, we have the responsibility to use our platform to affect positive change in the community. I take it seriously.
I believe that some athletes have fear, but you have to work on that. Athletes can't have fear. Fear of what? Fear of losing? Everybody loses one day.