We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabl….

A knowledge of our ability to consciously radiate health, strength, and harmony will bring us into a realization that there is nothing to fear becaus….

We tend to look at successful athletes and make them almost bigger than life. I have seen many young men who have achieved greatness. I have also see….

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world..

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to ….

A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any inter….

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people..

This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776 B.C. to 393 A.D.,….

I don't think that the Olympic games are a good place to bring up any political issues because it should be about the athletes and about coming toget….

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete..

Whether you're a veteran like me or a high school athlete, the most important thing you can do is keep your body healthy..

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete..

Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model.….

Everybody used to say that baseball players can't dress and athletes can't dress. You know, a lot of athletes now are trying to prove everybody wrong….

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it.".

I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class ….

It was tough. That may happen at the Trials. You are so in the zone when you are in there it's tough running halfway down the track and having to com….

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to ta….

The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can..

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now..

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to ….