Russell Wilson knows who he is. He’s not a running quarterback, he’s not a throwing quarterback – he’s an athlete back there playing the quarterback ….

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift..

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete..

I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models..

The way to stay popular as a quarterback in the NFL is never to play..

When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was a lethal sniper. I could hit th….

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did..

If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the w….

You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summe….

Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I ca….

Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect..

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching..

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide..

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever have to get in top shape and s….

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them..

Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with….

As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me..

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing..

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race..

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer..

There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best….