Some parents want to make better athletes of their children.

They do not make professional athletes much like Navratilova anymore.

It is a routine that would kill a weekend warrior and makes even other professional athletes wilt.

Even if, statistically, women don't make better athletes than men, women make for better stories.

Sometimes, we make pro athletes out to be superhuman, indestructible young millionaires living in a surreal world.

Television and the Internet have made athletes and all of the other public figures that much more public.

It is this ability to withstand great hardship, Loroupe believes, that makes athletes from developing nations into the best distance runners.

Other studies have reported that high stress levels make athletes at least twice as susceptible to injury.

Way back," Bob recalls, "we didn't make athletes into gods.

He said good students generally made better athletes, anyway.