Athlete Quotes - Page 19

• I'm an athlete who's very determined and I understand sacrifice.

  Allyson Felix

  Sacrifice, Determined

  "Exclusive: Allyson Felix, The Best to Ever Do It". Interview with Sylvia Snowden, www.ebony.com. September 13, 2016.

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• There was a race that I was running in Mexico City and I was the only high school athlete running against grown women. It was a professional race, but I ended up winning. That was kind of a turning point for me where I felt like, "Okay, I'm pretty good at this and there's a possibility for this to be a career for me." That was a defining moment for me.

  Allyson Felix

  Running, School, Winning

  "Exclusive: Allyson Felix, The Best to Ever Do It". Interview with Sylvia Snowden, www.ebony.com. September 13, 2016.

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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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• I think the sport needs the help to continue to motivate athletes.

  Usain Bolt

  Sports, Thinking, Needs

  The ESPN.com Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 23, 2016.

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• I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

  Usain Bolt

  Sports, Track, Want

  "Q&A with Usain Bolt: Protests, doping scandals, post-track life... and wings". The ESPN.com Interview, www.espn.com. September 24, 2016.

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• I've always been more of the athlete in my family, but Bella [Hadid] is just good at - when she needs buckle down for like two weeks and be in [the gym] every day, she's really good at that.

  Gigi Hadid

  Two, Needs, My Family

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My fitness inspiration has always been athletes, my whole life. Serena Williams is a great friend of mine and Ronda Rousey - we did Sports Illustrated together. Obviously, following powerful women and seeing their bodies and how hard they work is really inspiring to me.

  Gigi Hadid

  Sports, Powerful, Inspiration

  "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.

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• Of course, the muscular build of athletes is always a challenge for a designer, but my clothing's softness and comfort, which are central aspects of my stylistic vision, allow it to adapt to various physical builds effortlessly.

  Giorgio Armani

  Challenges, Vision, Comfort

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

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• To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes who possess this drive are the ones I am attracted to.

  Giorgio Armani

  Ambition, Discipline, Effort

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

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• I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually and as a team. That type of record is certainly not anything that I have aspirations to reach.

  Pat Summitt

  Team, Successful, Orange

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

  Pat Summitt

  Teaching, Love Is, Long

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Brazilians tend to have that weakness, they get emotional. You can easily get them upset and get them out of their comfort zone. They're clever too and very gifted athletes but they have that emotional thing, which we Europeans also have a little bit of.

  Alistair Overeem

  Clever, Emotional, Upset

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• It might take a while but I think the rap game is the people that can do it. We're all role models more than athletes because athletes don't wear clothes like the kid in the hood and they don't walk and talk like the kids in the hood. We're closer to them than anybody because they can look at us and see them.

  Rakim

  Rap, Kids, Thinking

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their event. The option to drop out of a race that is going badly does not exist for a climber halfway up a big route, and may entail more risk than pushing on. A team of volunteers will not be waiting with warm blankets and hot food at the next bivy ledge. When you reach the summit, having overcome the challenges that inspired you for months or years, you are not at the finish line. The race is not over. You can't relax and let your guard down like a normal athlete.

  Steve House

  Sports, Team, Struggle

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by competition have driven this evolution to a state of high refinement such that today's athletes have a very specialized approach to training at the elite levels.

  Steve House

  Sports, Years, Competition

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• A ton of athletes, even if they know your name, pretend they don't.

  Jeff Pearlman

  Names, Knows, Ifs

  Source: lombardiave.com

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• Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

  Judd Apatow

  School, Comedian, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.

  Jim Courier

  Basketball, Running, Successful

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

  Judd Apatow

  Art, Winning, Entertainment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them that they're terrible at their profession, they hope they lose their next match or fight.It's hugely negative and unless you can rise above it and pay no attention, it can have a very serious impact on that person's state of mind.

  David Haye

  Home, Fighting, Impact

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• We know that for the last 300 or 400 years, the size of human bodies is growing. Now what happened is that we suddenly, in history, have the backward process. We have these great Greek athletes, we have ultra-powerful Roman soldiers. You look at the size of the Roman soldier who has to carry all this ammunition. You're talking about 300,000 Arnold Schwartzeneggers.

  Garry Kasparov

  Powerful, Talking, Years

  Source: www.timothytaylor.ca

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• What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.

  Jay Mohr

  Old You

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• If you want to be a proud person, then you want to avenge your loss. For me it was [Josean] Serra and [Joe] Hughes, and for Michael Bisping, Henderson is one of his losses - one of his most painful losses. So I understand why he wants to avenge it. As an athlete I understand.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Loss, Proud Person, Want

  "Interview: A sit-down with Georges St-Pierre in Israel". Interview with Ram Gilboa, www.bloodyelbow.com. August 10, 2016.

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• I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Jobs, Cutting, Emotional

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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• I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Sports, Teacher, Salary

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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