Athlete Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

  Josh Duhamel

  Athletic, Enough, I Realized

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• Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Motivational, Body, Able

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• I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

  Linda Evangelista

  Jobs, Next, Maintaining

  "Supermodel Linda Evangelista takes Salma Hayek's husband to court demanding $46,000 support a month - and an armed guard - for their lovechild". www.dailymail.co.uk. August 03, 2011.

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• I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

  Mike Piazza

  Sports, Player, Games

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• Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

  Manu Bennett

  Inspired, Peak Performance, Performances

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• No athlete works harder than Floyd Mayweather.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, Hard Work, Floyd Mayweather

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• Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

  Kanye West

  Nike, Garden, Play

  "Kanye West Partners With Adidas, Cuts Ties With Nike" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2013.

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• If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.

  Eve Arden

  Athletic, Grease, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Principal McGee". "Grease", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• Mavericks and its talent deserve this innovation and respect. Now is the time to harness its power for the world to experience. These athletes amaze me with each wave ridden; I am honored to take on such an empowering responsibility. I look forward to celebrating these artists of big wave surfing through showcasing the most important wave in history.

  Griffin Guess

  Responsibility, Artist, Empowering

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• Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

  Lara Spencer

  Second Chance, Tvs, Chance

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• I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.

  Serena Williams

  Icons, World, Realizing

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• I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.

  Serena Williams

  Lists, Actresses, Thirds

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• I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Literature, Talk To Me

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• Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man's game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don't even have to do that - and they get to wear sneakers.

  Mitzi Gaynor

  Men, Games, Sneakers

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

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• I had to add Oguchi into the list. After all, he’s a soccer player—fittest athletes ever. At 6'4 210 pounds, he's one of the most feared men in the world's game.
  I've played against a lot of massive defenders. And no one has Oguchi's strength. His shoulders and chest are so big that people confuse him with an NFL player. He can move anyone in the game with one arm, including the best strikers in the world. Guys absolutely fear him.

  Charlie Davies

  Soccer, Moving, Player

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• I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.

  Haven Kimmel

  Sports, Passion, Order

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.127, Broadway Books

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• If you don’t have fun, it’s hard to do your best. It’s not going to be enjoyable.

  Kimmie Meissner

  Motivational, Fun, Enjoyable

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• If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant.

  Renato Canova

  Want, Littles, Accountants

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• For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.

  Edith Grossman

  Disappointment, Adventure, Competition

  Edith Grossman (2010). “Why Translation Matters”, p.26, Yale University Press

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• I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.

  Shawn Johnson

  Sports, Taken, Years

  "Shawn Johnson training for 2012". Interview with Amy Van Deusen, www.espn.com. May 10, 2011.

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• To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

  Shawn Johnson

  Hurt, Thinking, Skills

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• I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can't be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers. The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!

  Bill Walton

  Hurt, Hate, Night

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