Athlete Quotes - Page 14

• Sure, there are times when the guys talk about playing football in school and I can't relate to that, but I can relate to being a female athlete. And as long as you are prepared, work hard and know your stuff, you will be fine.

  Megan Alexander

  Football, School, Hard Work

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Goodlife was originally a ski management/athlete management company. I have a couple friends who are sponsored for skiing and my manager linked up with their manager. We worked out a deal, because they wanted to branch out into music and culture.

  SonReal

  Couple, Culture, Branches

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Sports, Philosophy, Broken

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• An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

  Radhanath Swami

  Struggle, Stronger, Gains

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• Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I can only stop once I've set the bar as high as possible for anyone coming after me.

  Lindsey Vonn

  People, Bars, Records

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• An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.

  Arnold Palmer

  Winning, Games, Play

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• The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Everyone else is struggling.

  Tina Fey

  Struggle, Kim, Looks

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• In the 1990s, Michael Jordan was the preeminent athlete in the country. And when the product with his name on it seemed to be linked to crime and violence in poor communities, many called on him to address it. They asked him to weigh in on robberies, on kids robbed for their high-priced Air Jordan sneakers. But he wouldn`t.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Country, Kids, Air

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

  Lolo Jones

  Girl, Fun, Goal

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's very gratifying.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Cereal, Games, Boxes

  Source: www.ign.com

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• All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.

  Derrick Rose

  Trying, Being The Best, I Can

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I most certainly believe that when you're an athlete, that really translates to all sports. You just understand it, your body understands it, and your mind understands it. And you just - it just clicks. I've found that happening when I play other sports. I've seen it, like when I've hit the ball with other professional athletes, and you can see they're just learning so quickly. It's just something that's in their blood. So I think it was in my parents' blood and they understood.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Believe, Thinking

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• All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

  Raul Lopez

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.

  Colleen De Reuck

  Perseverance, Horse, Hard Work

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• There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Passion, Artist

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 06, 2017

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• You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

  Bela Karolyi

  Gymnastics, People, Housewife

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• We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

  Shannon Miller

  Gymnastics, Games, Months

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• I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.

  Charles Barkley

  Mom, Sports, Growing Up

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• In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

  Elka Graham

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.

  Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

  Diana Nyad

  Motivation, Ocean, Inspiration

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• I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Believe, Role Models

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• I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.

  Johnny Weir

  Gay, Thinking, Political

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• The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.

  Lisa Fernandez

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

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• I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Long Ago, Over You

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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