athlete quotes

I'm not an athlete, more a gymnast and golfer, soldered together.

- David Bryant
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

The world knows the American athlete is superior. It's onlya matter of time before we develop the world's best soccer teams.

- Paul Caligiuri
  In The Times, 28 Dec.

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

- Emil Zatopek
Quoted by Christopher Brasher in the Observer,12 Sep1982.