Athlete Quotes - Page 35

• If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Son, Drug

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• I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Running, Writing

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• I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Sports, Stress

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• Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Player, Today

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• So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Skills, Tables

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking, Giving

  "TalkAsia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2005.

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• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Caring, Cycling

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• The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

  Cheng Fei

  Gymnastics, Giving, Way

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• I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will.

  Dick Van Arsdale

  Leadership, Basketball, Attitude

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• I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Dream, Sorry

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• There's a better way to speak out against President Putin and call out his bigotry for exactly what it is: speaking up for equal rights and educating people around the world about the persistence of homophobia. Rather than boycott, I, along with several amazing organizations including Athlete Ally and All Out, plan to use the Sochi Games as a teachable moment for the world.

  Greg Louganis

  Gay, Persistence, Rights

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• Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

  Earl Blaik

  Sports, Golf, Humiliated

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• The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

  Anson Dorrance

  Volleyball, Thinking, Practice

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• There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over and over ... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility to being caught off-guard. —

  Karch Kiraly

  Volleyball, Play, Feelings

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• Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

  Aimee Mullins

  Softball, Sports, Jobs

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• Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

  Aimee Mullins

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.

  Keith Brantly

  Motivational, Running, Training

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• To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Pain, Looks

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• The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

  Herb Elliott

  Running, Attitude, Important

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• As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.

  Deena Kastor

  Running, Ups & Downs, Picks

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• In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration.

  Tegla Loroupe

  Motivational, Country, Running

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• Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Giving, Pieces

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• Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

  Said Aouita

  Motivational, Running, Body

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• It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Men, Body

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• It's an incredible feeling, 110,000 people energy at that level. What I realized from watching the first day of competition was that athletes that got excited and happy and got the fans into it and clapping, they did better. The athletes that took it too seriously, they didn't do as well as they'd hoped.

  Gabe Jennings

  Running, People, Competition

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