Athlete Quotes
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.
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Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.
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The Rock is the Rock, you know? He's the ultimate athlete, the professional man with precision. And you want precision from a 270-pound living, walking brick wall.
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I surfed until I was 18, and being the athlete that I am, I got really frustrated with how I wasn't really getting any better.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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To be the first British athlete to win a gold is amazing, but to win it in the U.K. is something else. Also, having my family here with me has made it extra special, and I know all my friends back home have been cheering me on and putting posters in their windows. I want to thank them all.
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I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
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The one thing I want my kids to remember about me is that I was an athlete. The hell with the rest of this stuff.
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Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time, the greatest female athlete of all time, the greatest athlete of all time.
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Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.
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I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.
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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
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My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
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With Venus and Serena and their ascension - and you had a lot of kids that saw them and wanted to be like them - it's like any sport, any major athlete, like Michael Jordan in basketball: everybody wanted to be like Mike.
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It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.
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Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
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I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
