Athletic Pride Quotes

Just looking down the bench and when you're on the court, you start to realize, 'I'm an All-Star.'

I beat Olympians.

To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.

I'm so happy to have done this, and now I can say I ran the New York City Marathon.

It's very important, especially in the basketball culture. We like our fashion. Coming into the NBA, you definitely have to step it up because you're competing on and off the floor. Not only on the court, basketball-wise, but a lot of us take pride in our style, too.

I just wanna show people I'm a hooper.

Except for two years in Stuttgart, I have always worn the FCB jersey.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'

Let me do what I do best. And that's to run and represent my country and make my country proud.

My biggest dream from the moment I started playing soccer was to join the national side. I was privileged to be part of the team and to serve as its captain and there's no greater honor.

Everybody has an ego, and they don't like their athletic ability to be questioned.

I felt I bowled well for Barbados, and that helped me.

It's an amazing feeling: tennis is growing very quickly in Canada, and to be a big part of it is an honour.

Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

I'm a British citizen, and I'm incredibly proud to represent Great Britain. I've also represented Great Britain in the Olympics, so I'm definitely a British athlete.

(Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.

Getting released in 2014 was the best thing that happened to me because I got to regain my focus, regain my pride, and come back as the best-conditioned athlete there is in WWE, which ultimately led me to become the single greatest WWE champion.

When things were really rolling at Texas Tech, I was a part of something bigger than myself, bigger than football.

Every rookie that thought they was good, I went at them to make sure they knew I was the best point guard in the league, and they had to go through me. That's just the way I was.

Every time I step on the pitch, I feel proud to play for my club and my country, so to get to show this pride through my boots has meant a great deal to me.

I believe I deserve to be respected as an athlete because I'm a pioneer in this sport.

It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who's on the team you're into it. It's different in tennis; you're sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.

My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.