Professional Athlete Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.

  Tom Peters

  Art, Wall, Business

  "The Peters Principles". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

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• I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Believe, Athlete

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• I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.

  Charles Barkley

  Mom, Sports, Growing Up

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• A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

  Tom Seaver

  Baseball, Athlete, Boys

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• It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Stars, Athlete, Rocks

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• In 1997, when I started as a professional athlete, my sport was not like it is now. I needed to develop myself to beat the next generation, but things also changed in the sport. Bikes have changed, the sport has gotten faster, and it's becoming more professional. But my goal always was to try to be one step in front of all the others. That was my motivation. That helped me to work every day during the year, and very hard. And it never stopped.

  Sven Nys

  Sports, Motivation, Athlete

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• So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

  Brett Favre

  Congratulations, Athlete, Play

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview With Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.

  Billy Horschel

  Athlete, Love Of My Life, I Love My Life

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• I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Kids, Athlete

  "Q&A WITH Wayne Gretzky : He's on the Ice, Feeling Fit Again : Hockey: His back is sound and the Kings are getting better. And people who say he's the Average One motivate him to continued greatness". Interview with teve Springer, articles.latimes.com. September 13, 1990.

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• Anybody who is a professional athlete who has a social media account on any of the networks, when they sign up for that account, they subject themselves to all of the criticisms and all of the praises that may or may not be out there. So you can't get on social media and complain about the people because that's what you know you're dealing with. You have to hear it. You don't have to respond. Me personally, I don't respond to the negativity. It's gonna be there. I read it. It keeps me grounded.

  George Wilson

  Athlete, Media, People

  KSK Interview, uproxx.com. October 29, 2012.

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• [T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Athlete, Thinking, Media

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• With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.

  Torrey Smith

  Believe, Athlete, Responsibility

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• As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

  Hope Solo

  Athlete, Player, People

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• I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Athlete, Kids, Thinking

  "Q&A WITH Wayne Gretzky : He's on the Ice, Feeling Fit Again : Hockey: His back is sound and the Kings are getting better. And people who say he's the Average One motivate him to continued greatness". Interview with Steve Springer, articles.latimes.com. September 13, 1990.

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• If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

  Dominick Cruz

  Sports, Athlete, Mma

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• David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Stars, Memories

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family...

  Kristopher Belman

  Sports, Mistake, Athlete

  "Before Being An NBA Superstar, LeBron Was Just 'Bron'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 14, 2009.

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• As a professional athlete I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before.

  Chael Sonnen

  Athlete, Fighting, Mma

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• In many ways, I think the WNBA is changing the way America views women and is having a positive impact on the way America views professional athletes. We're showing the world what women can be as athletes and what athletes can be as citizens.

  Laurel J. Richie

  Athlete, Thinking, World

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Blessed, Athlete

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• We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

  Bobby Orr

  Believe, Athlete, Responsibility

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• I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.

  Brian J. White

  Jobs, Wall, Athlete

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• society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Sex, Athlete, Qualms About

  Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

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