Athletes Quotes
475 Athletes quotes by 371 unique authors
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Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive…
— George Balanchine
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It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
— Mort Walker
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To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who…
— Dianne Holum
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There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.
— Unknown Author
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It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand,…
— Billie Jean King
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All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing…
— Roger Staubach
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I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent…
— Linford Christie
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I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.
— Linford Christie
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I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.
— Linford Christie
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Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and…
— Linford Christie
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We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We…
— Linford Christie
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This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.
— Meg Cabot
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I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.
— Shane Koyczan
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Athletes and actors do really crazy things, and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things…
— Anika Noni Rose
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For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an…
— Giles Duley
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Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something…
— Bill Simmons
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MMA fighters are said to be some of the best athletes in the world. My plan at the age of 47 is to show the…
— Herschel Walker
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I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.
— Willie McCovey
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I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates…
— Wladimir Klitschko
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The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was…
— Jeffrey Osborne
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The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event.
— Yuna Kim
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Last time I was starstruck was when I met Roger Federer. He is one of the few athletes that I really look up to -…
— Henrik Lundqvist
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I kind of rode this weird line between athlete and artist. It was a little different because most of the athletes were total jocks, and…
— Terry Crews
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Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.
— Robin S. Sharma
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We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate…
— Dominique Moceanu
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