Athlete Quotes - Page 33

• The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.

  Adrian Rogers

  Morning, Prayer, Doors

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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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• We're the greatest athletes in the world without a doubt.

  Hulk Hogan

  Wrestling, Doubt, World

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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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• 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 can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure on myself, it's just the belief I have in myself......I'm not going to limit myself by nominating times or anything like that. I never thought I'd do 14:34 and I did. I thought I'd maybe do 14:38 or 14:39 that day, and I went nearly five seconds quicker so I don't want to limit the possibilities

  Grant Hackett

  Motivational, Sports, Mean

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• Body does what mind prefers.

  Lenny Krayzelburg

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as you are having fun, but I can say that it becomes much more fun as you get older and learn more about the sport, life, and especially more about yourself

  Scott Goldblatt

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing

  Pieter van den Hoogenband

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

  Summer Sanders

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it!

  Petria Thomas

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things to happen but I don't know who from. I think it's kind of silly but I'm prepared for it. I'd probably just laugh it off because it means that they are afraid of racing me, so it's like a huge compliment

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Silly

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• It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

  Jade Edmistone

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• I've just been enjoying the training a bit more. I've put too much pressure on myself in the past. Just relax and let it come. I just went out there to have a bit of fun tonight.

  Sophie Edington

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

  Timothy Gallwey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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