Athlete Quotes - Page 16

• I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.

  Chad Harbach

  Artist, People, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

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• LeBron james came, and he gets $10 million a year. There was no stigma or blemish, like you have with one-and-done. Now people say, "He's not a student, he's an athlete." Well, of course he's not a student! He's here for one year and he told you he's here for one year, and the school took him with open arms.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  School, Years, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can.

  C. J. Wilson

  Sports, Thoughtful, Cities

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.

  John Eliot

  Basketball, Winning, Years

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• Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boys, Opposites, Champion

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

  Scott Avett

  Role Models, Roles, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

  Eric Fischl

  Sports, Art, Musician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

  Jon Jones

  Artist, Martial Arts, Martial Artist

  "Exclusive interview: Jon Jones talks arrest, UFC 197 bout with St. Preux". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. April 19, 2016.

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• Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.

  Bill Goldberg

  Basketball, Jobs, Player

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Summer, Nbc, Olympics

  Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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• Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.

  Park Dietz

  Thinking, Target, Actors

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I would say facing the obstacles surrounding the day-to-day pressures of an elite athlete at a very young age was not the easiest task. Learning to deal with the nerves and feeling the pressure of representing my country, all while wanting to achieve my own dreams, was a big obstacle to plow through.

  Tara Lipinski

  Dream, Country, Feelings

  "Tara Lipinski​: On Dealing with Stress, Using Failure to Fuel Success​​, and How she Keeps her Head Clear". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.

  Nathan East

  Daughter, Gymnastics, Skills

  "Daft Punk Bassist Nathan East: Music is His Mission". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I just started training with the best fighters in the world trying to get better. I was a pretty good athlete so I did pretty well with the team and that gave me confidence that I would be able to compete with people.

  Robbie Lawler

  Team, People, Training

  Source: www.octagonbuzz.com

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• The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness, Instagramming one's way into popular consciousness with selfies of our ass folds beneath short shorts, human growth hormone and performance-enhancing drugs for athletes, Adderall for the idle mind, reality television that sacrifices our dignity for fifteen lousy minutes.

  Daniel Gillies

  Sacrifice, Reality, Greatness

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• I have struggled to be taken seriously as a female athlete. I have struggled to find my worth outside of winning. I have struggled to accept parts of myself. Now I'm recognizing the beauty in those parts as well as beauty in the times when things didn't go my way.

  Lynsey Dyer

  Taken, Winning, Female

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• It's a common myth that athletes and other highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities and build and repair muscles and other bodily tissues. In fact, there is growing evidence that consumption of too much protein can lead to very serious health issues, including kidney disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. The active body can get all the protein it needs from a diverse, 100% plant-based diet.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Osteoporosis, Issues

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• When I watch a singer perform, or an athlete, I can't help but be driven to be the best I can be at my craft.

  Jonathan Sadowski

  Watches, Crafts, Singers

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I have kids. Unbeknownst to them, they are quick to snap me back to reality when I start feeling the pressure of being an athlete! It's a breath of fresh air to have two people to focus on; their happiness erases all the pressures I have on myself.

  Amanda Beard

  Kids, Reality, Air

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

  Amanda Beard

  Sports, Yoga, Meditation

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As a professional athlete, I have an incredible platform to inspire, impact, and deeply affect another human being. It sets my soul on fire.

  Joanna Lohman

  Soul On Fire, Impact, Inspire

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• I think once an athlete always an athlete and once you have a competitive nature about you, in general, it's hard to let go. Whether you're going to take it into medicine or take it into sport, the competitive drive never really leaves.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, Letting Go, Thinking

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• I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Soccer, College, Cycling

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• I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don't have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?

  Kristin Armstrong

  Soccer, Sports, Kids

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• Regarding the psychological, your goal must not be "I need to lose X pounds" but "I'm going to regain my identity," whether as an athlete, a conservative, a sexual being, a together person, whatever.

  Tony Robbins

  Goal, Together, Identity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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