Athlete Quotes - Page 15

• I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?'

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Sports, Guy, Wonder

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There's things Calvin Johnson does that nobody else can do. He's obviously huge, his physical attributes outweigh just about everyone in the league. But on top of that, he still has the ability to learn. He's like a sponge and soaks up anything that can help him as an athlete, as a person. On top of that, he's not soft. He catches the ball and tries to get upfield to score. He doesn't slide or go out of bounds. That's a rare find in the NFL.

  Nate Burleson

  Nfl, League, Trying

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• Athletes and actors do really crazy things and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.

  Anika Noni Rose

  Crazy, Actors, Circumstances

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can't. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.

  Billy Kennedy

  Thinking, Play, Email

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

  Billy Kennedy

  Parent, Outcomes, Students

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• I think the biggest shift for me is - this is going to sound like a wanky actor, but - getting in touch with, and learning to not just appreciate, but actually really enjoy being a woman. Because for so long I was a jock, and I was an athlete, and I was a tomboy, and people would joke about like, fancy dress, you should go as a girl.

  Zoe Bell

  Girl, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• But they've [my children] made me better. They hold me more accountable for who I am and who I aspire to be, and they make me want to be better. And that's not just as a mommy, but as a woman and as an athlete.

  Kerri Walsh

  Children, Who I Am, Want

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• My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.

  Jessica-Jane Applegate

  School, Life Is, Pool

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the only thing I've ever thought of really my whole life, and music came into my life actually in '99, playing and singing. It's definitely been the only hobby I've had that I can't put down.

  Bronson Arroyo

  Baseball, Singing, Hobbies

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they're doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn't finished his test, but still gets to play because he is an athlete, fails the test and still gets to play because they're an athlete, gets to get away with not doing chores at home because they've got practice.

  John Amaechi

  Sports, Home, Kids

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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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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• The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

  Michael Waltrip

  Basketball, Sports, Problem

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• One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Football, Stars

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• Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.

  Bill Maher

  Inspirational, Sports, Hockey

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.153, Rodale

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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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• 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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• Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. But it does have everything to do with having the vision to dream, the courage to recover from adversity and the determination never to be shifted from your goals.

  Kieren Perkins

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

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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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• 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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• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

  Lance Armstrong

  Running, Suffering, Endurance

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.18, Random House

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• Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Mind, Age

  Jeff Galloway (1984). “Galloway's Book on Running”

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• As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

  Magic Johnson

  Common, Injury, Understood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have a body, you are an athlete!

  Bill Bowerman

  Motivational, Body, Ifs

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