#athletes

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete. ↗

— Linford Christie

#athletes #earning #funding #getting #had

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#athletes #back #ball #bouncing #continue

I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#athletes #citizens #city #deepest #express

Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible. ↗

— Deion Sanders

#important #kids #know #look #responsible

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things. ↗

— Boris Becker

#athletes #did #hard #haven #i

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#give #great #human #model #perfection

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. ↗

— Pat Boone

#culture #entertainers #good #influence #make

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#brothers #great #had #i #interest

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. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#athletes #come #day #downtime #here

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#acceptable #active #athletes #females #had