Athlete Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Competing at the Olympics is the pinnacle of your career. Everything is amplified, and you feel so proud to represent your country. You're there with athletes from all over the world. Everyone is coming together, putting differences aside.

  Allyson Felix

  Country, Together, World

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• It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Running, Energy

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Dublin, Ireland, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and when you care so much about doing what you do, there's a little bit of nerves that come with that. But nerves that won't prevent you form performing, nerves that, hopefully, allow you to be that much more motivated and inspired to do well.

  Sidney Crosby

  Sports, Thinking, Matter

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• Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

  Ron Jaworski

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Hollywood, Wells, Plenty

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger: Success and secrets". "60 minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. September 30, 2012.

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• I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Body, Used

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

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• I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

  Sean William Scott

  Sports, Wanted, I Realized

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• You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

  Junior Seau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

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• I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.

  Maria Sharapova

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• Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Hard Work, Simple

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• May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Strong, Race

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Doctors, Careers

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• I know what it takes to get to the top.

  Linford Christie

  Knows

  "Harlequins' Kyle Sinckler: 'If I have not got fire in my belly I don't want to play'" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2017.

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