Athlete Quotes
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Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.
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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 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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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'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.
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It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
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I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
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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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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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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'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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A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
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My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
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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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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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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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I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
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Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
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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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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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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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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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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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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
