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Scientists are sometimes as competitive as professional athletes, maybe. -- Brian Kobilka
American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. -- Gordie Howe
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
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
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
People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport. -- Larry Ellison
It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga over movie and music stars, and the reverse is true with entertainers and sports stars. -- Cheech Marin
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
We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that. -- Bobby Orr
I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company. -- Timothy Ferriss
I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company. -- Timothy Ferriss
Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks. -- Emmitt Smith
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them. -- Matthew Modine
In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire. -- Leigh Steinberg
It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year sustain a traumatic brain injury, and about 50,000 of them die each year, according the Centers for Disease Control. There are both emotional and financial costs from these injuries. -- Anne Wojcicki
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models... -- Charles Barkley
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top. -- Joyce Meyer
There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed. -- Ted Simmons
We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not. -- Rafael Nadal
Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys. -- Keyshawn Johnson
Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing. -- Alice Dreger
Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes. -- Bruce Forsyth
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
Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen. -- Leigh Steinberg
The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could in an instant. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us. -- John McNally
There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family. -- Kristopher Belman
Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can. -- C. J. Wilson
The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel. -- Thomas Sowell
A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets,. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us. -- David Brooks

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