Athlete Quotes
1476 quotes by 891 authors
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else…
— Lance Armstrong
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
— Lance Armstrong
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting…
— Lance Armstrong
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
— Arthur Ashe
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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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
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I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run…
— Tyra Banks
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A…
— Roger Bannister
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I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever…
— Roger Bannister
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it.…
— Roger Bannister
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Athletics is a luxury.
— Roger Bannister
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I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
— Roger Bannister
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links…
— Roger Bannister
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It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a…
— Roger Bannister
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I…
— Yogi Berra
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
— Larry Bird
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
— Larry Bird
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
— Larry Bird
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