Athlete Quotes
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It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
Jim Courier -
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.
Jade Jones
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
Usain Bolt -
The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
Landon Donovan -
I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.
Jamie Foxx -
I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
Bo Jackson
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Oscar Robertson -
Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.
Ato Boldon -
I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I was always, 'An athlete? Heck no.'
Jessica Simpson -
I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.
Larry Wilmore -
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
Yannick Noah -
There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
Carl Lewis
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
Haile Gebrselassie -
The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
Dennis Rodman -
Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.
Jon Jones -
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.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.
Kimberly Elise -
As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I trained with Olympics Athlete Jeanette Kwakye - who is amazing! And Shani Anderson, who is an excellent Olympic runner. We trained five times a week; running, circuits, weights, working out in the gym, and on the track. It was an insane time.
Lily James -
No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values.
Yvon Chouinard -
I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'
Serena Williams -
Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
Bobby Cannavale