Athlete Quotes
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I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
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Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.
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You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
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Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.
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My mum and dad are both sportspeople and know what's it all about. They know it's hard work, but they also know what it takes to become a professional athlete. I don't think - without their help, I wouldn't have got this far.
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For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!
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I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.
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I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.
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I'm an athlete. I'm strong. I'm tough. And that's how women should be. That's how they should be built.
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With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.
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To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a huge compliment to say, 'O.K., you have physical abilities that are kind of above and beyond.' But at the same time, I feel like it diminishes the mental side of the game.
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I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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[Yasuhiro] Yamashita is a respected judo master not only in Japan but across the world. To me, he is an example of an outstanding athlete and a very good man.
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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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We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.
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You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
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Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get here. Yeah, I didn't walk away with a medal or run away with a medal, but I think there's lessons to be learned when you win and lessons to be learned when you lose.
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You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.
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Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.
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The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.
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Just having what's important, to have people around you to support and take care of you. That's the most important thing when you are a professional athlete.
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In my 20s, it was easy. In your 40s, it's a lot more challenging. You have to look at it like you're an actor, but you're also a professional athlete. You have to train.
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I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
