Athlete Quotes
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I've become more of a climber now - who still keeps that time trial as strong as ever. It gives me such self-belief. I feel a different athlete.
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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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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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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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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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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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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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People also think Christians are very passive people, and that drives me crazy as an athlete because if you watch me play and compete, I'm the furthest thing from passive that you'll see on the baseball field. I love to compete, and I love to win.
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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 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 -
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.
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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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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.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
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In high school and college, I was an athlete.
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I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
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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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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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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.
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I'm a huge fan of Conor McGregor, an incredible athlete. What he has done for MMA is phenomenal; he has been a great supporter of me.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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I think every athlete wants to get sponsored. If you do really well in your sport, then I think sponsorship can help you get rewarded in that sense: doing what you can for your sponsor. It's just another achievement in life.
