Athlete Quotes

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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
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
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
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
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
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
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
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
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
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
Athletics is a luxury. — Roger Bannister
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. — Roger Bannister
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
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
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
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. — Larry Bird
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. — Larry Bird
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. — Larry Bird

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