Professional Athlete Quotes

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  Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

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• As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

  LeBron James

  Moving, Athlete, Goal

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

  Bobby Hull

  Gratitude, Athlete, Play

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• When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

  Bob Gibson

  Sports, Athlete, Men

  "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

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• America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

  Evan Esar

  Education, Money, Believe

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• You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

  Robin Yount

  Athlete, Lifestyle, Difficult

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• The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

  Frank Shorter

  Stars, Children, Athlete

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• Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Success, Athlete

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• I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

  Sean William Scott

  Sports, Athlete, Wanted

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• I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

  Hidetoshi Nakata

  Football, Believe, Opportunity

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• You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

  Junior Seau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Athlete

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• The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Athlete, Doors

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• I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club.

  Alison Sweeney

  Mom, Athlete, Special

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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

  Athlete, Men, Games

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

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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, Athlete, Garden

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

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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 just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not.

  LeBron James

  Athlete, Thinking, Bed Of Roses

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• There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, Athlete, College

  "Robert 'RG3' Griffin III on Playing Football in a Political Town, Dream Pickup Game With Obama". Interview with Chris Moody, abcnews.go.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.

  Ricky Williams

  Athlete, Nfl, Icons

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• There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

  Ted Simmons

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Athlete, People

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• I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for.

  Emmitt Smith

  Dream, Team, Athlete

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• As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Children, Athlete, Lawyer

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• At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Track, The End Of The Day

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• There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Childhood, Correlation

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

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