Athlete Quotes
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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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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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But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established.
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[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see.
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We can make a huge impact. We can be that difference maker just because of our status and because of what we do. I would advise all professional athletes to get involved and to try to help make a difference. If we don't, who else will?
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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 can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.
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The game of soccer has been able to give me what I wanted out of life. I just remember being a total Tomboy and athlete as a girl, but never having a lack of opportunity.
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Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete?
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Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.
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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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I don't know if anything can really prepare you for 'Survivor,' but since I grew up as an athlete, the physical aspect came to me more easily.
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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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One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.
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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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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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Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.
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Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.
