We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over.

- Alberto Juantorena

I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a basketball party, and I just kind of froze. He's monstrous.

- Chris Evans

Scientists are sometimes as competitive as professional athletes, maybe.

- Brian Kobilka

Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.

- Beth Brooke

Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.

- Bruce Forsyth

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

- Bill Toomey

Too many athletes do not admit their weaknesses.

- Bill Toomey

We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

- Bobby Orr

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

- Bill James

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

- Arthur Lydiard

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.

- Angela Ruggiero

Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.

- Adam Peaty

I am actually a huge supporter of the Canadian athletes, and they are all really nice people.

- Ashton Eaton

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

- Apolo Ohno

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

- Andy Murray

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

- Axl Rose

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

- Abby Wambach