Athlete Quotes - Page 30

• Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Moments, Hours

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• As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.

  Kipchoge Keino

  Motivational, Running, Fun

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• Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we're the same physically. They've done the same kind of training; they are in the same kind of shape. But the one that wins is the person who really believes they can win.

  Benita Johnson

  Running, Believe, Winning

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• Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.

  Jack Foster

  Motivational, Running, Way

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• It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Character

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.

  Lynn Jennings

  Running, Insecure, People

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• If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

  Paavo Nurmi

  Running, Winning, Games

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• When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.

  Ron Delany

  Motivational, Running, Winning

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• Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

  Ron Hill

  Motivational, Running, Race

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• I don't drink. I don't kiss girls. These things do an athlete in.

  Suleiman Nyambui

  Motivational, Girl, Running

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• Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

  Veikko Karvonen

  Motivational, Running, Marathon

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• The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it

  John Wooden

  Running, Done, Should

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• The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

  Dennis Hastert

  Sports, Education, Wrestling

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• The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Lying, Power

  "Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete". Book by Tony Gentry, 1990.

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• I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Children, Dad

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• In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

  Althea Gibson

  Inspirational, Sports, Workout

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• Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Vision, Preparation

  Marianne Williamson (1997). “The Healing of America”

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• You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.

  Damon Hill

  Winning, Want, Pushing

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• Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

  Dawn Fraser

  Motivational, Sports, Hurt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when they realise instinctively that this is their game... I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Summer, Sports, Couple

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• Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the same movements he will become more skilful and his muscles more relaxed...He must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.

  Franz Stampfl

  Sports, Believe, Hard Work

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• The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes.

  Peter Singer

  Sports, Drug Use, France

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.323, Princeton University Press

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• I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see is another Australian athlete having a go. It isn't until they see the full Cathy Freeman picture that they realise how proud I am of my ancestry and heritage. I'd like a little more tolerance and acceptance of my culture and all the differing cultures that make up Australia.

  Cathy Freeman

  Leadership, Kids, Acceptance

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• You are worth so much more than points on a scoreboard or wins vs. losses. The best athletes I know are also some of the best people I've ever met.

  Jimmy Moody

  Monday, Loss, Winning

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• You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.

  Ernest Gaines

  Moving, Crafts, Lines

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