Athlete Quotes
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I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.
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The conditioning and the lifestyle changes you have to make to remain a healthy athlete are what molded me into what I am today.
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There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.
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As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.
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Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
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A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.
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Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.
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To be an Olympic athlete is an honour, a privilege. They're so respected. This is my dream. I have to do this.
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I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.
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I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.
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I'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do.
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
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To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It's often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It's the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.
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Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.
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I have some cool talents. I'm really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I'm a big athlete and especially love soccer.
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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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If a female is good-looking, it totally decreases her credibility. Now she's not a good athlete - she's only good in these track meets because she's good-looking.
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Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
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The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.
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It feels so good to be the World Athlete of the Year.
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The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.
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It is to create the best Games the world has ever seen by unlocking the UK's unrivalled passion for sport, by delivering the best Games for athletes to compete in, by showcasing London's unmatched cultural wealth and diversity and by creating a real and lasting legacy.
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I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought that writing or teaching was what I wanted to do.
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Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.
