Athlete Quotes - Page 12

• As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

  Magic Johnson

  Common, Injury, Understood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.

  Colleen De Reuck

  Perseverance, Horse, Hard Work

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• There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Passion, Artist

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 06, 2017

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• By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport. We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty.

  Svetlana Boginskaya

  Sports, Gymnastics, Want

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• You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

  Bela Karolyi

  Gymnastics, People, Housewife

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• We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

  Shannon Miller

  Gymnastics, Games, Months

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• The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

  Don Coryell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

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• I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.

  Charles Barkley

  Mom, Sports, Growing Up

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• I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

  Walter Payton

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

  Elka Graham

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. But it does have everything to do with having the vision to dream, the courage to recover from adversity and the determination never to be shifted from your goals.

  Kieren Perkins

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

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• In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.

  Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

  Diana Nyad

  Motivation, Ocean, Inspiration

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• I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Believe, Role Models

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• I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.

  Johnny Weir

  Gay, Thinking, Political

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• The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.

  Lisa Fernandez

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

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• I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Long Ago, Over You

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

  Lance Armstrong

  Running, Suffering, Endurance

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.18, Random House

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• Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Mind, Age

  Jeff Galloway (1984). “Galloway's Book on Running”

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• If you have a body, you are an athlete!

  Bill Bowerman

  Motivational, Body, Ifs

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• The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

  Bruce Lee

  Strong, Power, Men

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

  George Gregan

  Thinking, Player, Years

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• The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.

  William C. Rhoden

  Sports, Player, College

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• As inherently franchise-altering as drafts are, as monumental as they can be in the sport's history, you still can't get past the fact that this is several hours of people wearing suits and reading names off a sheet of paper. The athletes' clothes are entertaining - though not as much as they once were - and there's a warmth you get from watching young men and their families have their dreams come true. But it's still just a televised committee meeting.

  Will Leitch

  Sports, Dream, Reading

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• If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

  Bob Costas

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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