Athlete Quotes
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There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.
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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.
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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.
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The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
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I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.
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If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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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.
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I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
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My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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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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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.
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Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.
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The basketball great Kobe Bryant started his own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as not just an athlete but also an investor and entrepreneur.
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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 and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers
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My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
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I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn't go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn't do that.
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I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.
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I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
