Athletic Hero Quotes

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.

D-Wade is my favorite player of all time.

Julio Cesar Chavez is the most important sporting figure we have ever had.

'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.

My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.