Athlete Quotes
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Everyone is an athlete. You want to go hiking, you want to go biking, you want to go jogging or for a walk? You're automatically an athlete.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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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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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
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SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I'm still an athlete, I'm still a stockbroker, I'm still an actor. I think of it as more of an opening of new doors than an actual transition. I enjoy all of those things, which is why they remain a part of my life.
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As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
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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'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 played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.
