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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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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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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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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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.
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I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.
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I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
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The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.
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No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.
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When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.
