Athlete Quotes
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Everybody doesn't get to do each and every film. I don't compete with others; I compete with myself. I have been an athlete, a sportsperson; so I know how to be competitive in a healthy way.
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I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.
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I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
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Music is my sport, and I'm the number-one athlete.
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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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When I'm in the gym, I'm in the gym, and that is my focus. But when I'm not in the gym, I'm enjoying being a mom and taking care of those responsibilities .. They really do provide me with the balance that I need to be a more complete 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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I'm an athlete, I'm a competitor, so whenever you have a loss, you feel it in your heart.
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Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.
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In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
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I never in a million years thought I would be able to be a Paralympic athlete.
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As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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As a professional athlete I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before.
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At six years old, our son had friends who played soccer from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M., Monday through Friday. A six-year-old practicing as much as a Division I athlete.
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I was an athlete when I was younger and played a lot of sports, including golf, but I always ended up throwing around my clubs in frustration.
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Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.
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I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
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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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I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.
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I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician.
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I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.
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Unlike boxers-or any professional athlete for that matter-rowers have little motivation to do it longer than necessary. With a modest amount of self-realization, you'll know when you have acquired the nebulous gifts that rowing has to offer, whether it's courage or a strengthened soul or a powerful body. Once you have it, drop back ten yards and punt. Someone new will pick up the ball and run with it.
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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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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.
