Athlete Quotes - Page 23

• I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Motivational, Determination, Giving Up

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

  Curt Schilling

  Geek

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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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• Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.

  Brian Owen

  Success, Sports, Sleep

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• Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

  Jack Kemp

  Success, Sports, Team

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• I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.

  Althea Gibson

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

  Rudy Tomjanovich

  Basketball, Sports, Motivation

  Rudy Tomjanovich (1997). “A Rocket at Heart: My Life and My Team”

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• The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

  Bob Costas

  Success, Sports, Community

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• I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  FaceBook post by Nadia Comaneci from Apr 24, 2014

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• It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

  Virginia Wade

  Character, People, Crunch

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• I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.

  Roger Bannister

  Thinking, Feelings, Trying

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

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• I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, War, Age

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• I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Running, Children

  "The Gigantic Book of Running Quotations". Book edited by Hal Higdon, 2011.

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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 was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

  Roger Bannister

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

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

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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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• Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Mother, Parent

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

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• My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, School, Acceptance

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• My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Hard Work, School

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• My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Years, People

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

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