Athlete Quotes - Page 14

• Sure, there are times when the guys talk about playing football in school and I can't relate to that, but I can relate to being a female athlete. And as long as you are prepared, work hard and know your stuff, you will be fine.

  Megan Alexander

  Football, School, Hard Work

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I get an adrenaline rush from "playing with the big boys." I consider myself a tomboy and was an athlete in high school, so I like to "talk shop" anyway. But it's fun to actually get paid to cover the NFL with all these incredible former players and sports anchors.

  Megan Alexander

  Sports, Fun, School

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

  Chris Bosh

  Selfish, People, Worry

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• Goodlife was originally a ski management/athlete management company. I have a couple friends who are sponsored for skiing and my manager linked up with their manager. We worked out a deal, because they wanted to branch out into music and culture.

  SonReal

  Couple, Culture, Branches

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

  Kevin Hart

  Sports, Sorry, Men

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• For most Olympic athletes‚ their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians‚ training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.

  Giles Duley

  Struggle, Differences, Competition

  "Paralympics: 'since I lost my limbs I can see the true heroism of the competitors'" by Giles Duley, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Sports, Philosophy, Broken

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• I think we have tremendous media covering the sport of boxing, even if boxing is a little bit lost in popularity with MMA sports. And I think that with the show 'Lights Out' it's going to get more attention to the sport, and it's going to put more attention to the problems that athletes in general have.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Sports, Thinking, Media

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• An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

  Radhanath Swami

  Struggle, Stronger, Gains

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• Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Woods, Tigers

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• Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Opportunity, Careers, Use

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• Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I can only stop once I've set the bar as high as possible for anyone coming after me.

  Lindsey Vonn

  People, Bars, Records

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• My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Admonition, Coaches, Strain

  Arthur Lydiard, Garth Gilmour (2000). “Running with Lydiard”, p.17, Meyer & Meyer Verlag

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• Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Joy, Feelings, Approach

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• An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.

  Arnold Palmer

  Winning, Games, Play

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• A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Average, Graduates, Speak

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• The Olympic Games are for 'the youth of the world,' but they're organized and scored by countries. It's no surprise that countries treat them as vehicles of national pride, and assume that their people will be most interested in their own athletes. So anybody who was saving up to write an angry letter, blog post, or op-ed about NBC's chauvinistic coverage: don't bother! They're actually more above-the-fray than most. Also, their coverage is not shown anywhere except America - I know, it's because I can't get it that I'm watching Women's Air Pistol - so can't ruffle feathers elsewhere.

  James Fallows

  Country, Writing, Pride

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• It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [...] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is.

  Jeff Schultz

  Team, Average, Years

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• The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Everyone else is struggling.

  Tina Fey

  Struggle, Kim, Looks

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• In the 1990s, Michael Jordan was the preeminent athlete in the country. And when the product with his name on it seemed to be linked to crime and violence in poor communities, many called on him to address it. They asked him to weigh in on robberies, on kids robbed for their high-priced Air Jordan sneakers. But he wouldn`t.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Country, Kids, Air

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.

  Moses Malone

  People, Drug, Want

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put it in the book, what I found fascinating was a description, from one of the scientists who helped Pistorius, of what the Paralympics will become. Because they don't place any restriction on enhancements for athletes, in the very near future the Paralympics will bear a closer resemblance to NASCAR than to the traditional Olympics. There will be a human-machine melding that will result in crazy feats of athleticism.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Crazy, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

  Lolo Jones

  Girl, Fun, Goal

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's very gratifying.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Cereal, Games, Boxes

  Source: www.ign.com

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• All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.

  Derrick Rose

  Trying, Being The Best, I Can

  Source: espn.go.com

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