Athlete Quotes
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Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.
Jaylen Brown -
I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.
Roger Federer
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I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.
Brian J. White -
That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
Omari Hardwick -
As an athlete, the most important thing is the protein that you eat and the things that you put into your body. Without that, it's very hard to function throughout the day.
Laurie Hernandez -
I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.
Bryce Dessner The National -
Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.
J. J. Watt -
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.
Bianca Walkden
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Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.
Don Kardong -
Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
Victoria Pendleton -
My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
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.
Lance Armstrong -
When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.
Don Kardong -
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
Pierre de Coubertin
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
Walter Dean Myers -
I've been an athlete most of my life and on a disciplined schedule. Working out for me is just part of my every day.
Apolo Ohno -
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
Katarina Witt -
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.
Frank Shorter -
I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.
Bonnie Bassler -
When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
Dan O'Brien
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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.
Jason Statham -
The problem with being married to an athlete who is, like, 19 feet tall and can just eat, like, 17 burgers at 11 o'clock at night is, you're like, 'I'll have just three of those burgers,' and you think you're being good because he had 19 and you had three!
Kaley Cuoco -
My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
I don't guess anybody would think much of what Joe did nowadays, including myself. But he was supposed to be a leader, so he had to live by the rules. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, and it was to the greatest athlete I ever coached.
Bear Bryant