Athlete Quotes - Page 37

• 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 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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• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  Gale Sayers

  Hero, Fighting, Men

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• All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Motivational, Football, Couple

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• Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

  Lynn Swann

  Football, Running, Distance

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• I came back late last night at the Athlete's Village so I'm a little bit surprised about my time this morning. It's really good and I'm going to race tonight and tomorrow night so I'm excited to see what I can do.

  Katerine Savard

  Morning, Swimming, Night

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• The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

  Susan Sontag

  Life, Spiritual, Self

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• I always said if I ever get married, I would tell my woman - I love Michael Jordan, I am a Michael Jordan fanatic - I said, 'Michael Jordan is the only athlete you can sleep with and I wouldn't get mad, as long as you got something signed. You gotta bring back a ball, a hat or something. You can't just give away that sh*t for free.'

  Aries Spears

  Sleep, Funny Marriage, Long

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• The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes is an excellent book for student athletes to understand what it takes to be successful. It covers all phases of life, and it is filled with wonderful wisdom. Illustrated by brilliant examples of very successful people, The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes forces student athletes to use their common sense as they work to achieve their goals. Raven Magwood is a very talented person and an extremely gifted writer.

  Danny Ford

  Book, Successful, Ravens

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• Do I midnight snack? Not a lot, but sometimes. And it's usually Doritos Cooler Ranch. I know that's terrible, especially for a pro athlete, but they're just so good.

  Clint Mathis

  Snacks, Midnight, Doritos

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• Tradition is something you can't bottle.You can't buy it at the corner store.But it is there to sustain you when you need it most.I've called upon it time and time again.And so have countless other Michigan athletes and coaches.There is nothing like it.I hope it never dies.

  Fritz Crisler

  Needs, Bottles, Michigan

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• I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

  Jaime King

  Motivational, Athletic, Training

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

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• I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his: I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Smart, Play, Careers

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• But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

  Piper Perabo

  School, Practice, Play

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• Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.

  Channing Tatum

  Workout, Nba, Nfl

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• I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

  Gene Kelly

  College, Dancer, Want

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• A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.

  Bruce Lee

  Strong, Powerful, Men

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• Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Degrees, Doe

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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