Definition of Athlete

Athlete

One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.

Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

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Athlete Quotations

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil Zatopek

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.
Emil Zatopek

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.
Brett Favre

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
Dick Gregory

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
Bo Jackson

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Gabrielle Reece

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
James Caan

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
Frank Shorter

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
Frank Shorter

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
Frank Shorter

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
Frank Shorter

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
Dennis Rodman

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
Martha Graham

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.
Dennis Eckersley

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
Dan O'Brien

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
Dan O'Brien

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
James S. Coleman

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.
Piper Perabo

Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure.
Geena Davis

I just wanted to be an athlete.
Merlin Olsen

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Oscar Robertson

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.
Herschel Walker

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
Kristi Yamaguchi

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
Norman Ralph Augustine

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.
Mickey Rourke

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
Vanessa Carlton

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Athlete Translations

athlete in Afrikaans is atleet
athlete in Danish is atlet
athlete in Dutch is atleet
athlete in Italian is atleta, sportivo
athlete in Portuguese is atleta
athlete in Spanish is deportista
athlete in Swedish is idrottsman, atlet

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