Michael East Quotes
It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.
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Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.
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Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
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I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.
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I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
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But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
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Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.
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I'm retired from the daredevil business.
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Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn't, he loses that authority.
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I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.
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As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
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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.
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I just do my work, try to do everything I can. I don't weigh in all offseason. I just try to get better, be in better position, be an athlete.
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I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.
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Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.
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Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not only motivating but inspiring.
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Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
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And she Eleanor Roosevelt loves being a star. And she loves being a teacher and a leader and a mentor and a big friend. Also, she's tall. She's one of the tallest girls in the school. And she's an athlete. And she writes many years later, at the end of her life, she writes that the happiest day, the happiest single day of her life was the day that she made the first team at field hockey. And I have to say, as a biographer, that's the most important fact.
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I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
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I resent the label on cigarettes. If they're going to warn you, why don't they put the same sign at the entrance to every freeway or on every banana that's sold? You can slip on the peel, you know.
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If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.
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It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.
