Good Athlete Quotes - Page 2

• When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

  Nick Saban

  Athlete, School, Goal

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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, Athlete, Skills

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

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• All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

  Raul Lopez

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

  Frank Shorter

  Softball, Sports, Athlete

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• It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

  Neil Peart

  Sports, Team, Athlete

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• The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

  Daley Thompson

  Athlete, Long, People

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• What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.

  Norman Mailer

  Athlete, Competition, Novelists

  "Mailer Tells a Lot. Not All, but a Lot.; His Longest Love Affair Is With the U.S." by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 2000.

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• They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Girl, Athlete, Golf

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• Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag.

  Dustin Poirier

  Athlete, Scumbags, Decent

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• I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.

  Ryan Lochte

  Athlete, Player, Knows

  ThePostGame Interview, www.thepostgame.com. April 23, 2013.

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