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475 Athletes quotes by 371 unique authors
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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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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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The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money.
— John Paxson
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The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of the realities that…
— DeLoss Dodds
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Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe…
— Rebecca Lobo
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My heritage is something that I have always been aware of, however, some would say that there is a disproportionately low number of Asians as…
— Nathan Adrian
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This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776…
— Bill Bowerman
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There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.
— Geoff Stults
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Many dedicated endurance athletes don’t need to be told what to do – they need to be told what not to do.
— Scott Tinley
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Winning takes care of everything.
— Tiger Woods
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For me, it's all about who you are. Some athletes may feel a responsibility. Some may not. One thing I've talked with my family and…
— Chris Paul
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In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice…
— David Halberstam
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I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that…
— Jennie Finch
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I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love…
— Lorrie Fair
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
— Aaron Sorkin
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I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over…
— LeRoy Neiman
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I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and serves…
— Juan Gabriel
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....What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes…
— Joey Reiman
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I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.
— Daniel Tosh
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