Athlete Quotes - Page 9

• You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

  Robin Yount

  Lifestyle, Difficult, Raising A Family

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• I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything

  Shannon Miller

  Needs, Ifs, Available

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• And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

  Jim Otto

  Mistake, Forever

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• I'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do.

  Marion Jones

  Jocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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  Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

  George Halas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

  Jerry Rice

  Motivational, Success, Sports

  "Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.

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• If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

  Herschel Walker

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  Herschel Walker (1989). “Herschel Walker's Basic Training”, Main Street Books

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• Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

  Jerry West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

  Mia Hamm

  Girl, Sports, Volleyball

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• Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

  Joe Paterno

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The potential for greatness lives within us all.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational Sports, Greatness, Influence And Power

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Artist, Schedules, Literature

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• Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

  Germaine Greer

  Spiritual, Pain, Soul

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• Never put an age limit on your dreams.

  Dara Torres

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  "Dara Torres: Don’t put an age limit on your dreams" by Giovanni Castelli, optometrytimes.modernmedicine.com. June 22, 2017.

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• If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

  Nastia Liukin

  Basketball, Sports, Gymnastics

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2012

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• I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.

  Marion Jones

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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

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• You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

  Faye Dunaway

  Tired

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• It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

  Jim Courier

  Self Worth, Self Respect, Riding

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• When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

  Bob Gibson

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

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