Athlete Quotes - Page 25

• That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

  Martina Hingis

  Jealousy, Sports, Florida

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• The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Golfers, Shoulders

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• Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

  Ben Hogan

  Funny, Sports, Golf

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• I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Team

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• I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Player

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• The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive power, you have to be a great athlete to have all these, his body, his look, you know, all these things have to do with discipline and structure. He was able to go against the biggest guy, regardless of who he was.

  Evander Holyfield

  Discipline, Guy, Looks

  "Evander Holyfield Q n A - Part I". Interview with Zhenyu Li, www.thesweetscience.com. April 20, 2010.

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• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

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

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• I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

  Jean Houston

  Life, God, Believe

  Jean Houston (1996). “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, Harpercollins

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• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  Naveen Jain

  Jobs, Successful, Impact

  "Bring Back America’s Spirit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2011.

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• Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

  Naveen Jain

  Football, Team, Play

  "Keeping Football Exciting While Reducing the Threat of Traumatic Head Injuries" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.

  Naveen Jain

  Sports, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

  LeBron James

  Moving, Goal, Trying

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

  Ron Jaworski

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Sports, Health, Exercise

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• I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

  Shawn Johnson

  Believe, Olympic Athlete, Stills

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• In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA.

  Shawn Johnson

  Team, Opportunity, Usa

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• In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Opportunity

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• I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Sports, Thinking

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• People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Dance, People

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• In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, People

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• Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  School, Covered Up, Opposites

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• The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sports, Player, Games

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• One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Super Bowl, Reason, Shows

  "Miss Millennium: Beyoncé" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 10, 2013.

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• I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.

  Artie Lange

  Kids

  "Artie Lange’s chilling words pre-suicide attempt: ‘I have so much to live for’". Interview With Mandy Stadtmiller, nypost.com. January 8, 2010.

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