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The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete. -- Dennis Rodman
There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete. -- Carl Lewis
You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult. -- Robin Yount
With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people. -- Torrey Smith
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. -- Evan Esar
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. -- Junior Seau
As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals. -- LeBron James
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment. -- Bobby Hull
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 and after you're a professional athlete. -- Derek Jeter
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 of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective. -- Frank Shorter
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models... -- Charles Barkley
I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club. -- Alison Sweeney
Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top. -- Joyce Meyer
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I personally believe that professional athletes should give back to their communities in any way possible. We are in a position to make a difference. -- Carson Palmer
When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do. -- Bob Gibson
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies. -- Seann William Scott
As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives. -- Hope Solo
A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers. -- Tom Seaver
So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad. -- Brett Favre
If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing. -- Dominick Cruz
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 up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control. -- Charles Barkley
As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer. -- Walter Dean Myers
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete. -- Bo Jackson
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. -- Jose Canseco
I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete. -- Joakim Noah
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company. -- Carl Lewis
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies. -- Seann William Scott
As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can. -- Hidetoshi Nakata
There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges. -- Dale Dauten
I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory. -- Troy Polamalu
I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for. -- Emmitt Smith
You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always say to me, 'Your image is this, your image is that.' Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. That's what I worry about. -- Derek Jeter
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 about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with. -- Robert Griffin III
I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them. -- Tim Howard
Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder. -- Tracy Anderson
I always wanted to be a professional athlete, it just took me a while to realise it would be in racing. I played field hockey competitively for Ontario since I was 13, 14. Then I tried for the national side and made it. But it was so competitive. The girls were just so big and strong. I was getting crushed. -- Chantal Sutherland
To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It's often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It's the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life. -- Andrew Luck
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. -- John Kruk
I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life. -- Billy Horschel
I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional. -- Katarina Witt
He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places. -- Collette West
As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that. -- Jonathan Ames
I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a cameo. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury. -- Joe Taslim
As a professional athlete, I have an incredible platform to inspire, impact, and deeply affect another human being. It sets my soul on fire. -- Joanna Lohman
As a professional athlete I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before. -- Chael Sonnen
I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to the good stuff. -- Greg Proops
I don't mind being a professional. As an athlete you are a role model, people are watching what you wear, listening to everything you say, -- Jalen Rose
My life as a professional athlete has allowed me the opportunity to visit and live in many different places and meet many interesting and diverse people. -- Scott Pruett
I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns. -- Will McDonough
If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake. -- John Salley
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.' I'm a performance athlete! -- Kanye West
As a professional athlete, there aren't too many things as gratifying as being on the front of a box. Whether it be a cereal box or a game box. It's very gratifying. -- Jeremy Roenick
I'm a Mormon. I don't do a lot of the off-the-field activities that athletes are known to do. And I guess I've created a world that is unlike the typical world of a professional athlete. -- Jeff Kent

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