Professional Athlete Quotes
52 quotes by 46 authors
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I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing…
— Charles Barkley
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In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is…
— Leigh Steinberg
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Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a…
— LeBron James
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I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models...
— Charles Barkley
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Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
— Lynn Swann
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Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.'…
— Kanye West
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Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man’s game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have…
— Mitzi Gaynor
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I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional…
— LeBron James
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There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just…
— Robert Griffin III
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
— Carl Lewis
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You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.
— Robin Yount
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Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before…
— Derek Jeter
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The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot…
— Frank Shorter
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I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal…
— Ricky Williams
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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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Unlike boxers-or any professional athlete for that matter-rowers have little motivation to do it longer than necessary. With a modest amount of self-realization, you'll know…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club.
— Alison Sweeney
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Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
— Jim Sensenbrenner
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I have been blessed with a long and healthy career as a professional athlete and as I move forward into the next stage of my…
— Jerry Rice
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First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Professional Athlete Quotes
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