Athletes Quotes
475 Athletes quotes by 371 unique authors
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Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.
— Willie Stargell
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I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the…
— Bill Toomey
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Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.
— Bill Toomey
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I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole…
— Johnny Weir
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I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
— Ricky Williams
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I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I…
— Serena Williams
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Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for…
— Venus Williams
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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
— John Wooden
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
— John Wooden
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An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
— Emil Zatopek
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Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but…
— Felix Dennis
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Dancers are the athletes of God.
— Albert Einstein
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Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of…
— Thomas Merton
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Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps…
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are…
— Jane Yolen
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Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.
— Barack Obama
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Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,”…
— Paul Theroux
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even…
— Jay-Z
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It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.
— Anthony Horowitz
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Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby.…
— Louis Zamperini
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You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
— Unknown Author
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Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness…
— Lord Chesterfield
Who Wrote These Athletes Quotes
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