It's fine to seek professional help, but I urge everyone - no matter how big their portfolio - to truly understand every suggestion they're given before acting.
I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.
The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.
You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.
My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
I don't know about politics so much. I'm a professional athlete.
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.
There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.
Being paid as a professional athlete didn't change how hard I was working because I'm always going to do that, whether it's the weight room or the film room.
As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.
I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.
Supporting black professional athletes was taken seriously in my home.
As professional athletes, we get pitched business or investment opportunities all the time, wherever we are.
It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year sustain a traumatic brain injury, and about 50,000 of them die each year, according the Centers for Disease Control. There are both emotional and financial costs from these injuries.
Historically, companies haven't hesitated to end their relationships with professional athletes amid scandals.
I applaud the professional athletes using their platform to voice their opinions.
People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport.
