Raphael Saadiq Quotes
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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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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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
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A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.
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My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
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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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You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.
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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.
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I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.
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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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My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
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An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
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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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Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.
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As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.
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I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.
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My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.
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I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.
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It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort.
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When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.
