Frank Shorter Athlete Quotations

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.

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.

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 so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

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

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

I graduated from Yale in 1969, from the University of Florida Law School in 1974, and passed the Colorado bar and was admitted in 1975.