Athlete Quotes
1476 Athlete quotes by 824 unique authors
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There are three things an athlete must do. You must be in physical condition ... You must execute properly and quickly the fundamentals ... and…
— John Wooden
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To win in the game of life, we all need both a healthy mind and body. By involving children in the fun and dynamic fitness…
— Digger Phelps
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To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're around the best…
— Julia Mancuso
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Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do…
— Harold Brodkey
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In the NFL game today, there are a lot of better athletes than I am, and quarterbacks these days are faster than the quarterbacks have…
— Peyton Manning
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I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish, but to carry…
— Shani Davis
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Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
— Warren Moon
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The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.
— Marty Liquori
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I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I…
— Brian McKnight
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Have fun, because that's what life is all about.
— Ryan Lochte
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My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
— Bill Rodgers
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These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
— Jim Sensenbrenner
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If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a…
— Alberto Juantorena
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I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going…
— Libby Trickett
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Dancers are both athletes and artists.
— Margot Fonteyn
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I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs.
— Unknown Author
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Our behaviour as an athlete is often determined by our previous experiences and how we dealt with those experiences. It is these experiences from past…
— Unknown Author
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The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying…
— Deena Kastor
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We all know the guy who sits at the end of the local bar telling the story of how he threw the winning touchdown pass…
— Don Panoz
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I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I…
— Wilford Brimley
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It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides
— Ed Ayres
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Being vegan doesn't make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.
— Brendan Brazier
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I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was…
— Carl Lewis
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I know I will have to come to forgiveness and acceptance of what has happened for me to go on and be happy in the…
— Elin Nordegren
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It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well when he returns,…
— LaVell Edwards
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