Athlete Quotes - Page 16

• The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

  Don Coryell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

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• I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

  Walter Payton

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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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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• 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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• 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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• The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

  Bruce Lee

  Strong, Power, Men

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.

  William C. Rhoden

  Sports, Player, College

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• As inherently franchise-altering as drafts are, as monumental as they can be in the sport's history, you still can't get past the fact that this is several hours of people wearing suits and reading names off a sheet of paper. The athletes' clothes are entertaining - though not as much as they once were - and there's a warmth you get from watching young men and their families have their dreams come true. But it's still just a televised committee meeting.

  Will Leitch

  Sports, Dream, Reading

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• If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

  Bob Costas

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can argue at another time whether football should occupy the same space on campus as those disciplines, but for now, it does. The critical point is that a coach is less concerned with preparing athletes for the next level than he is with molding them to fit a system that helps him win games, keep his job and, eventually, move on to a position with a more prestigious program.

  William C. Rhoden

  Football, Jobs, Moving

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• The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

  Thomas Sowell

  Income, Steel, Obsession

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• Everybody used to say that baseball players can't dress and athletes can't dress. You know, a lot of athletes now are trying to prove everybody wrong, though there are some athletes that try too hard and try to do over-the-top things. But me, I try to be simple and just make whatever I'm wearing look good.

  Matt Kemp

  Baseball, Simple, Player

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• The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

  Zig Ziglar

  Greatness, Numbers, Discipline

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• The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.

  Linda Chavez

  New York, Revenge, Team

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• I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.

  Chuck Connors

  Chiropractic Care, Actors, Tvs

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• Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.

  Jamie Farr

  Children, Average, Adults

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

  Twyla Tharp

  Men, Males, Different

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!

  Cathy Freeman

  Commonwealth Games, Track, Stones

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• Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

  Oliver North

  Sports, Hero, People

  "True Heroes Place Themselves at Risk for Benefit of Others Oliver North" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Well, my dad was into music, but he wasn't into me being into music. In my house when I was a kid, when I was real young, my dad wanted us all to play sports, and we were jock-like. We had a lot of money. And my brother was sort of the light of our family, and he was a good athlete. And I wasn't a very good athlete, but I tried to be. And then when I was 15 my dad went bankrupt, and we moved to Houston. And I went with him, but then I went back to Portland.

  Todd Snider

  Sports, Brother, Dad

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• I get an adrenaline rush from "playing with the big boys." I consider myself a tomboy and was an athlete in high school, so I like to "talk shop" anyway. But it's fun to actually get paid to cover the NFL with all these incredible former players and sports anchors.

  Megan Alexander

  Sports, Fun, School

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

  Chris Bosh

  Selfish, People, Worry

  Source: alanpaul.net

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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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