"The athlete knows the day will never come……" — Steven Pressfield
"The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt."
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187 Quotes by Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield has 187 quotes on this site.
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Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
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The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the…
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The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul,…
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when…
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On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to…
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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is…
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it,…
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up…
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F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it…
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The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be…
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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More Athlete Quotes
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one of 1,476 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it…
— Lance Armstrong
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
— Lance Armstrong
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
— Lance Armstrong
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
— Arthur Ashe
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say…
— Tyra Banks
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think…
— Roger Bannister
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I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and…
— Roger Bannister
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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