Athlete Quotes - Page 40

• I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

  Tom Osborne

  Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

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• Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

  Andre Agassi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Differences

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• It's been a wild ride. I hope people can appreciate how special it is to see the people that ran well today; how special and sometimes fleeting greatness can be even from yourself. I gave it everything I had and for a short period of time I did very very well and I'm very proud of that and I'm leaving it at that. I did the best I could.

  Alan Webb

  Greatness, People, Appreciate

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• And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Motivational, Responsibility, Alcohol

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• In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Reality, Alcohol, Drug

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• I think that to be a competitive athlete, you have to be goal-oriented.

  Shannon Miller

  Gymnastics, Thinking, Goal

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• Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Black, Assumption

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1984). “Giant Steps”, Bantam

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• Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Inspiration, Kids

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• The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Dream, Games

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• If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Son, Drug

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• I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Running, Writing

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• I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Sports, Stress

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• Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Player, Today

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• So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Skills, Tables

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking, Giving

  "TalkAsia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2005.

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• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Caring, Cycling

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• The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

  Cheng Fei

  Gymnastics, Giving, Way

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• I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will.

  Dick Van Arsdale

  Leadership, Basketball, Attitude

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• I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Dream, Sorry

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• There's a better way to speak out against President Putin and call out his bigotry for exactly what it is: speaking up for equal rights and educating people around the world about the persistence of homophobia. Rather than boycott, I, along with several amazing organizations including Athlete Ally and All Out, plan to use the Sochi Games as a teachable moment for the world.

  Greg Louganis

  Gay, Persistence, Rights

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• Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

  Earl Blaik

  Sports, Golf, Humiliated

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• The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

  Anson Dorrance

  Volleyball, Thinking, Practice

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• There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over and over ... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility to being caught off-guard. —

  Karch Kiraly

  Volleyball, Play, Feelings

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• Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

  Aimee Mullins

  Softball, Sports, Jobs

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