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Athletes that can't listen, can condition. -- Chuck Daly
Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus. -- Hope Solo
Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that. -- Haile Gebrselassie
Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me. -- Magic Johnson
A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet. -- Lolo Jones
Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it. -- Jack Nicklaus
Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts. -- Asafa Powell
Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible. -- Deion Sanders
The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate. -- Yao Ming
Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do. -- Kim Clijsters
Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race. -- Lance Armstrong
Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people. -- Charlie Sheen
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts. -- St. Jerome
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. -- Bill Bradley
Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions. -- Steve Backley
Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets. -- Tom Udall
Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes. -- Gale Sayers
Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life. -- Charles R. Sledge Jr.
Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks. -- Anna Quindlen
Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions. -- Daley Thompson
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 in an extreme manner. -- Anika Noni Rose
Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win. -- Arthur Lydiard
Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills. -- Nathan East
It is exactly the unattainability, which differentiates a dream from a goal: Goals are reachable, when you fight for them. Dreams are not. Athletes shouldn't dream, but set goals for themselves and fight for them. -- Fabian Cancellara
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 an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do. -- Felix Dennis
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure. -- Naveen Jain
Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic. -- Dennis Quaid
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 the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros -- Rebecca Lobo
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 the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros. -- Rebecca Lobo
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete -- Bill Russell
I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do. -- Oscar Pistorius
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you. -- Kobe Bryant
My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet. -- Edwin Moses
We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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 peace, because sports brings everyone together. -- Venus Williams
In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed. -- Anita Desai
Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes. -- Lou Holtz
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. -- Angela Merkel
Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done. -- Russell Means
I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very 'Glee.' -- Lindsay Pearce
It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America. -- David Stern
As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it. -- Lou Holtz
It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating. -- Paula Radcliffe
Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place. -- Kid Rock
I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for. -- Diana Lopez
Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle. -- Channing Tatum
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation. -- David Agus
I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example. -- Jonathan Vilma
The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich. -- Fran Tarkenton
Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes. -- Simon Sinek
Dancers are the athletes of God. -- Albert Einstein
Actors are athletes of the heart. -- Antonin Artaud
Dancers are both athletes and artists. -- Margot Fonteyn
A lot of athletes use sports psychologists. -- Andy Murray
Times have changed. The athletes have changed. -- Joe Namath
Too many athletes do not admit their weaknesses. -- Bill Toomey
I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes -- Richard Krajicek
Reading for writers is like training for athletes. -- Linda Sue Park
When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals. -- Raphael Saadiq
Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that. -- James Roday
Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings. -- Willie Stargell
Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support. -- Ryan White
Scientists are sometimes as competitive as professional athletes, maybe. -- Brian Kobilka
Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes. -- Ruud Gullit
I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection. -- Carl Lewis
I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline. -- Seal
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. -- Dennis Rodman
Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids. -- Candace Parker
Models are like athletes: You burn hard and fast. -- Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
We're the greatest athletes in the world without a doubt. -- Hulk Hogan
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age -- Aaron Sorkin
American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. -- Gordie Howe
The guy is the greatest male athletes of all time. -- Serena Williams
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. -- Larry Bird
Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals. -- Billie Jean King
The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality. -- Rafael Nadal
There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously. -- Lisa Guerrero
Theres that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously. -- Lisa Guerrero
I believe that by living as athletes we live more fully. -- Gloria Averbuch
College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. -- Ruby Wax
The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money. -- John Paxson
For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth. -- Mary Lou Retton
We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race. -- Paul Samuelson
It's funny, because athletes want to be rockers and vice versa. -- Matt Willig
I think the sport needs the help to continue to motivate athletes. -- Usain Bolt
Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. Â? -- Marv Dunphy
The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians. -- Avery Brundage
Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing. -- Apolo Ohno
Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met. -- Don King
The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event. -- Yuna
My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain. -- Arthur Lydiard
Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes. -- Mary Lou Retton
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes. -- Cathy Rigby
Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances. -- Manu Bennett
I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances. -- Manu Bennett
I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful. -- Linford Christie
Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches. -- Mark Rippetoe
A ton of athletes, even if they know your name, pretend they don't. -- Jeff Pearlman
I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time. -- Mariah Carey
I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad. -- Ricky Williams
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes. -- Curt Schilling
Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House. -- Jimmie Johnson
The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event. -- Yuna
There are all these athletes out there cheating. I am clean and pure. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly. -- Michael Waltrip
I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it. -- Willie Stargell
Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists. -- Neve Campbell
Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes. -- Janice Kaplan
I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. -- Earl Campbell
The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field. -- Jimmy Haslam
I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side. -- Taufik Hidayat
All athletes would be better if they eat better. Junk in equals Junk out. -- Jack LaLanne
I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training. -- Alberto Salazar
I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. -- Nancy Greene
Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school. -- Judd Apatow
We're often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money. -- David Duval

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