Lindsay Davenport Quotes
I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.
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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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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I'm always working out.
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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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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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I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
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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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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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I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.
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The problem with being married to an athlete who is, like, 19 feet tall and can just eat, like, 17 burgers at 11 o'clock at night is, you're like, 'I'll have just three of those burgers,' and you think you're being good because he had 19 and you had three!
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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 hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.
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My thing I liked was to challenge guys that were smaller, guys that were supposed to be quicker. Because I think self-consciously I was trying to prove to people it wasn't just my height that was getting me across in these various sports. It was some other intrinsic things that I had that made me a good athlete.
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Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president.
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The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'
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I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.
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Get up and get moving. Follow me!
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I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.
