Athletes
- Dimitar Berbatov – Football player
- Haile Gebrselassie – Runner
- Kenenisa Bekele - Runner
- Oksana Baiul - Figure Skating
- Dejan Bodiroga - Basketball Player
- Anna Chakvetadze - Tennis Player
- Tirunesh Dibaba - Runner
- Abebe Bikila - runner
- Elena Dementieva - Tennis Player
- Novak Đoković - Tennis Player
- Daniel Nestor - Tennis Player
- Nadia Comăneci - Gymnast
- Vlade Divac - Basketball Player
- Pete Maravich - Basketball Player
- Meseret Defar - Runner
- Dragan Džajić - Football Player
- Aleksandar Đorđević - Basketball Player
- Jeff George - Former NFL Quarterback
- Alex Holmes - Football Player
- Ana Ivanović - Tennis Player
- Jelena Janković - Tennis Player
- Jaromír Jágr - Former NHL Hockey Player (mostly Pittsburgh Penguins). Russian Orthodox. Converted - is from Czech Republic.
- Vladimir Jugović - Football Player
- Victoria Azarenka - Tennis Player
- Yevgeny Kafelnikov - Tennis Player
- Andrei Kirilenko - Basketball Player
- Anna Kournikova - Tennis Player
- Svetlana Kuznetsova - Tennis Player
- Siniša Mihajlović - Football Player
- Predrag Mijatović - Football Player
- Anastasia Myskina - Tennis Player
- Ilie Năstase - Tennis Player
- Darko Pančev - Football Player
- Troy Polamalu - Football Player
- Alex Rodriguez - Baseball Player]]
- Pete Sampras - Tennis player
- Dejan Savićević - Football player
- Dragoslav Šekularac - Football player
- Maria Sharapova - Tennis player
- Andriy Shevchenko - Football player
- Irina Slutskaya - Figure skater
- Dejan Stanković - Football player
- Predrag Stojaković - Basketball player
- Dragan Stojković - Football player
- Nemanja Vidić - Football player
- Lev Yashin - Football player
- Theodoros Zagorakis - Football player
- Sergei Gonchar - Hockey player
- Evgeni Malkin - NHL hockey player with Pittsburgh Penguins
- Gheorghe Hagi - Football player
- Cristian Chivu - Football player
- Adrian Mutu - Football player
- Gheorghe Popescu - Football player
- Evan Lysacek - Figure skater
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Famous quotes containing the word athletes:
“The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth ... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)