Athlete Life Quotes

When I stopped wrestling, I literally lay in bed for two weeks.

It's just like I'm an athlete, I'm a human being. I have personal issues going on.

Instagram and Twitter are the best ways to let people in on what I do - not only basketball, but having fun with my friends too.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

At my first Olympics, I didn't have a contract, and I wasn't making any money. After my first Olympics, I was working at 24 Hour Fitness at the front desk. I would go to practice in the morning, run home, shower, grab some food and then go straight to work. I didn't get off of work until 10 or 11 o'clock at night.

Sometimes in the NBA, the schedule gets to be a lot with all these events, busses, planes and games. But once that's gone, you miss it so bad.

Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.

I am full time athlete.

Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

If you go out once a week, they can blast on you that you're always out all the time, but I always put work first, and people sometimes don't see the side of going into the weight room, behind-the-scenes-type stuff with football.

I can't play football forever.

The holidays are important, but the path I've chosen doesn't take that into consideration. I do what I can to enjoy them, but it's one of the sacrifices of being an athlete.

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

For players you don't hear about in the news, they enjoy the hell out of the offseason. They can travel and see things they never thought they'd see, or go back home to relax and see their kids and family that they haven't had a chance to hang out with in a few months.

My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

One of the greatest provisions for people like me, to be honest with you - I give up a lot when I run.

In the '90s, I never socialised with other players.

Life is awesome as a college athlete, and then it's a total cliff to jump off.

Being away with a national side at a tournament can be hard - you train, go back to your hotel, and often, you sit in your room, watching TV or speaking to people at home. If there's no communal area, it can feel like being in prison, staring at the same four walls all the time.

You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always say to me, 'Your image is this, your image is that.' Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. That's what I worry about.