Athlete Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.

  Billy Kennedy

  College, Parent, Treats

  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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• It`s interesting about people who choke. I`m, believe it or not, a good athlete. I`ve watched people choke over the years.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Years, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.

  Michael Sandel

  Basketball, Children, Disappointment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.

  John Eliot

  Basketball, Winning, Years

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• Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boys, Opposites, Champion

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

  Eric Fischl

  Sports, Art, Musician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

  Jon Jones

  Artist, Martial Arts, Martial Artist

  "Exclusive interview: Jon Jones talks arrest, UFC 197 bout with St. Preux". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. April 19, 2016.

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• Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.

  Bill Goldberg

  Basketball, Jobs, Player

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Summer, Nbc, Olympics

  Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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• It's a common myth that athletes and other highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities and build and repair muscles and other bodily tissues. In fact, there is growing evidence that consumption of too much protein can lead to very serious health issues, including kidney disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. The active body can get all the protein it needs from a diverse, 100% plant-based diet.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Osteoporosis, Issues

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• When I watch a singer perform, or an athlete, I can't help but be driven to be the best I can be at my craft.

  Jonathan Sadowski

  Watches, Crafts, Singers

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I have kids. Unbeknownst to them, they are quick to snap me back to reality when I start feeling the pressure of being an athlete! It's a breath of fresh air to have two people to focus on; their happiness erases all the pressures I have on myself.

  Amanda Beard

  Kids, Reality, Air

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Soccer, College, Cycling

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• I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don't have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?

  Kristin Armstrong

  Soccer, Sports, Kids

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• Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.

  Gene Kelly

  Jobs, Couple, Everyday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was always known as that stocky, muscular, powerful, short, athlete. People always wondered if I was on steroids, and it was because I wasn't that long and lean, flexible, artistic gymnast. It didn't affect me too much but it got to the point where I tried to be that long and lean gymnast, and it just wasn't possible.

  Shawn Johnson

  Powerful, Long, People

  "Shawn Johnson gets more nervous watching Olympic Trials than she did competing". Interview with Maggie Hendricks, ftw.usatoday.com. July 27, 2016.

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• If you're tweeting - and this is what I tell the young athletes who come to me about these situations, because I've been through them and I've seen both sides of it - if you're tweeting just because everyone else is tweeting and you're not uncomfortable, if it doesn't feel like a sacrifice - like when I wore that T-shirt it was a sacrifice.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Sacrifice, Sides, T Shirt

  "People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I would never say anything about [James] LeBron because I know how much he means to the community; I know how much he does in the community, which is honestly 100 times more than your average athlete.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Mean, Average, Community

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I'm a high-performance athlete: I'm running, I'm sprinting, I'm sliding, I'm doing pretty much everything and the last thing I want to worry about is my chest. I want to just worry about playing the sport at the highest level that I can.

  Serena Williams

  Sports, Running, Worry

  Source: wwd.com

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• There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.

  Adam Richman

  Soccer, Example, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Routine, Today

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Interesting

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• You're always struggling because you're not playing on a 53-and-a-third by a 120-yard field. You're not playing on a baseball diamond. With golf, every field is different and every atmosphere is different. The grass is different. The weather is different. You're outside. You're not in a stadium. There are so many different variables, so you never master golf. So, I think good athletes like a challenge.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Baseball, Struggle, Golf

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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