Pro Athlete of The Year
- See also: Associated Press Athlete of the Year, Best Female Athlete ESPY Award, Best Male Athlete ESPY Award, Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year
- 2009 – Mariano Rivera, New York Yankees
- 2010 – Roy Halladay, Philadelphia Phillies
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Famous quotes containing the words pro, athlete and/or year:
“The upbeat lawyer/negotiator of preadolescence has become a real pro by now—cynical, shrewd, a tough cookie. You’re constantly embroiled in a match of wits. You’re exhausted.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)
“Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet’s year is completed, it will be found to be central.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)