Athlete Quotes
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My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.
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College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
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With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.
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I personally believe that professional athletes should give back to their communities in any way possible. We are in a position to make a difference.
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There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine.
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I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.
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I don't know where it's written that he's going to get big money. Let's wait and see what happens. You're always nervous when you give any athlete big money and a lot of years. There isn't a good track record in sports for players with long-term contracts, so you're always nervous. But sometimes you're forced to do it because of market conditions.
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If athletes went to the races more and to the backside in the morning, I think more people would get involved because, as an athlete, we can relate to what the horses go through. Training routine, injuries, massages, etc.
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.
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But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established.
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Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.
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Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education of the conscience is vital to the truly proactive, highly effective person. Training and educating the conscience, however, requires even greater concentration, more balanced discipline, more consistently honest living. It requires regular feasting on inspiring literature, thinking noble thoughts and, above all, living in harmony with its still small voice.
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Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.
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Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.
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Marian is one of the top players in this league. He's an unbelievable athlete, and he's strong on the puck.
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One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.
