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“I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.”
“People don’t think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.”
“As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.”
“I’m a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I’m mad built.”
“I’m an athlete, and I have been interested in sports films.”
“If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.”
“Music is my sport, and I’m the number-one athlete.”
“I’m proud of my body, I’m proud of my sport, I’m proud of being a female athlete.”
“Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you’re about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.”
“I’m an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don’t get or ever got the respect from people.”
“I will be a complete man, a complete athlete, with a fight with Roy Jones Jr.”
“I’m a Christian who happens to be an athlete, not the other way around.”
“The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.”
“I’m an athlete, but I’m not a runner. I’m 5-foot-8 and stocky – not exactly a runner’s type.”
“I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.”
“I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.”
“Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.”
“The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.”
“I’m impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.”
“A male athlete’s peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.”
“I don’t think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.”
“I’m not the best athlete.”
“One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.”
“Bam Bam Bigelow was an amazing athlete for his size.”
“Let’s be honest: I’m an athlete, not an entertainer as much.”
“Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.”
“Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.”
“The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.”
“The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on ‘The Biggest Loser.’”
“I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.”
“I’m an athlete. I’m not a big golf nerd in that aspect. I’m not big on the history.”
“Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I’d be lying if I said that’s not what I wanted.”
“Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become.”
“I was a Division I college athlete, and I grew up with five brothers and two sisters. I’ve always been a competitor.”
“Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.”
“Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma.”
“I’m not an athlete dater, really. I would get too jealous. They’re really gone all the time. Different hotel rooms.”
“I’ve always been a pretty good athlete.”
“Having your competitiveness and your desire as an athlete called into question is, for sure, frustrating.”
“An athlete’s diet is a complicated thing.”
“I am not competing to be an athlete. I make music.”
“I believe I deserve to be respected as an athlete because I’m a pioneer in this sport.”
“I was a very good athlete: actually professional in the sport of handball.”
“I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.”
“Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.”
“I think a great athlete transcends eras.”
“I wasn’t a great athlete.”
“I was a horrible athlete.”
“When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.”
“I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.”
“I can’t criticize an athlete if they say they’re injured.”
“It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.”
“It’s like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn’t necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.”
“People still think I’m a bit of a buffoon – not really an athlete.”
“Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.”
“Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.”
“Bobsledders are big athletes, and I’m a big athlete.”
“The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He’s the center of a team – doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.”
“I’ve had an affinity for Michael Jordan. He’s probably the greatest athlete in my generation.”
“My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.”
“You are an athlete when you’re onstage. You can’t get tired.”
“I’m not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I’m a female athlete personality.”
“I worked my whole life and dreamed my whole life of being a professional athlete.”
“Rosie knows how to play ball. She’s an athlete, for sure.”
“For an athlete, the country is everything.”
“An athlete may not know what they’re putting in their body.”
“It feels so good to be the World Athlete of the Year.”
“In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.”
“There shouldn’t be budget problems. There is so much money that goes untapped. If every athlete gave 5% of what they earned, there wouldn’t be any budget problems.”
“Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.”
“For every athlete, the roar of the crowd goes away, and we have to learn how to turn the page.”
“For me, I’ve lived a life as an athlete.”
“I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.”
“I don’t run like any type of athlete.”
“One of the scariest things for any athlete, I think, is pretty much the off season.”
“Ryan Giggs just had an athlete’s physique. He could run all day.”
“Henry Cejudo is going to become the greatest combat athlete of all time, being an Olympic champ and a two-division champ in the UFC.”
“He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.”
“Even Sachin used to get ducks during his career. There are ups and downs in every athlete’s career.”
“Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.”
“My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.”
“I’m not just a footballer; I’m a top athlete, and we have to be at the top of our game.”
“I don’t think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.”
“I’m never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons – I’m not that person.”
“Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I’ve always challenged that notion.”
“I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.”
“I was an athlete when I was growing up.”
“As soon as I had a child, he became the priority. Now, I fit my training around him. I’ve changed as an athlete.”
“I’m definitely Australian and wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve been formed as an athlete in Australia.”
“I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.”
“I learned a lot from my father. I’m very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.”
“My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.”
“I think I’m a good athlete.”
“I’m a British citizen, and I’m incredibly proud to represent Great Britain. I’ve also represented Great Britain in the Olympics, so I’m definitely a British athlete.”
“Kid Rock is a hell of an athlete.”
“I’m not an athlete, I’m a baseball player.”
“In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.”
“No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to.”
“I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.”
“I don’t eat as much as an athlete should. I just don’t like it.”
“I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.”
“I think that Ben Askren, when he competed as a wrestler, he was an amazing athlete.”
“I think I’m a crossover athlete to get the sport into the mainstream media.”
“I think every athlete is afraid for their career to be over.”
“At one point that’s all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn’t athletic enough.”
“I was an athlete, but I hung out with the band guys. I was adaptable.”
“The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.”
“Psychologically, for an athlete to miss a game because of injury, it’s tough.”
“I think the physicality of being an athlete or working out, it grounds you. It centers you.”
“Every athlete in the UFC, I think they want to fight for the title. I’m no different.”
“Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.”
“One thing about me is that my parents didn’t force me to be an athlete.”
“My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.”
“I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It’s the pinnacle of any athlete’s career.”
“Maybe I’m the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.”
“I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.”
“I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.”
“As an athlete, you learn to keep pushing through the pain until the pain eventually becomes unbearable. Even then, you are told to continue.”
“I’m a huge fan of Conor McGregor, an incredible athlete. What he has done for MMA is phenomenal; he has been a great supporter of me.”
“With Venus and Serena and their ascension – and you had a lot of kids that saw them and wanted to be like them – it’s like any sport, any major athlete, like Michael Jordan in basketball: everybody wanted to be like Mike.”
“Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time, the greatest female athlete of all time, the greatest athlete of all time.”
“To be an Olympic athlete is an honour, a privilege. They’re so respected. This is my dream. I have to do this.”
“When I was a kid, I had serious athlete’s foot and nosebleeds.”
“I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.”
“I don’t know about politics so much. I’m a professional athlete.”
“I’m an African-American man with an Afro who isn’t your typical athlete – who wasn’t as masculine as other guys.”
“I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I’ve always been very athletic.”
“I was fully immersed in the now as an athlete.”
“I’m an athlete in general.”
“I have been a professional dancer and athlete my entire life.”
“Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.”
“My athlete idol is Usain Bolt. He’s inhumanly fast!”
“I’m a golfer – not an athlete.”
“Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting – or the authorities even prosecuting – a pro athlete were practically nil.”
“I was a tomboy growing up, and an athlete.”
“My favourite meal is penne carbonara – that’s good for an athlete, right?”
“I’m a different athlete, I’m a different person.”
“I’m not going to relate to an athlete as a peer.”
“I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.”
“The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You’re running out on relays all the time. You’re covering second base. On every pitch, you’re moving.”
“Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.”
“I think there’s nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.”
“I’m an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.”
“I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.”
“I’m a jock and I’m an athlete, and that’s what I love to do.”
“In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.”
“Daniel Bryan is a good athlete, but he’s a better entertainer.”
“I’ve been a Nike athlete since day one.”
“I really didn’t have one particular athlete I liked growing up.”
“Everyone probably says this, but my favorite athlete is Tony Hawk. I’d really love to meet him.”
“I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.”
“I just wanted to be an athlete.”
“Never played football, but I’m an athlete. I’m a competitor.”
“Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.”
“It probably won’t sink in until I’ve retired from running but I’m a much better athlete than two years ago.”
“As an athlete, I’ve always been very proud to represent the United States.”
“I’m a collegiate All-American athlete and earned a master’s degree in education from Florida State University.”
“I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.”
“The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.”
“Being an athlete, my job was to physically perform.”
“Everyone has been injured, regardless of whether they’re an athlete or not.”
“It all depends on the athlete. It all depends on if the bigger guys come out, and they become a Shaquille O’Neal, or if they become a Porzingis…You don’t ever lose sight of those type of players, even though the game has changed.”
“One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.”
“It’s physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.”
“I never in a million years thought I would be able to be a Paralympic athlete.”
“I am an athlete, a warrior.”
“But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.”
“He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.”
“Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not only motivating but inspiring.”
“I think The Undertaker is, much like Brock Lesnar, a once-in-a-lifetime wrestler, a once-in-a-lifetime athlete, and a once-in-a-lifetime performer.”
“As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio.”
“The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.”
“My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.”
“Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.”
“I’m a sports fan. I’m not just an athlete who plays football.”
“A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don’t get to that level if you’re not.”
“When you get off five or six months, and you’re not competing as an athlete, you want to get back out on the field.”
“I always wanted to be an athlete growing up.”
“Holly Holm is a heck of an athlete and a heck of a fighter.”
“Obviously, that’s the thing any athlete wants to be able to do, to take weaknesses and turn them into strengths.”
“I was always more of an athlete. I like to compete.”
“Being an athlete, you try to get protein.”
“I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn’t really have a conventional, feminine body type.”
“I’m not a UFC athlete. I’m a UFC fighter.”
“The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.”
“I don’t know if I’m a good kickball player; I know I’m a good athlete.”
“When you think about mixed martial arts, you have to think about the entire scope of the athlete.”
“In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it.”
“I’m an athlete rep, so I’ll be available if they need me for anything.”
“You are an athlete if you are a dancer.”
“I still can’t believe I’m an Olympic athlete.”
“I am an entertainer and I am an athlete, and WWE is the biggest performance-based show in the world.”
“I was not an athlete in college.”
“Coos Bay is a sports-minded town. You had to be an athlete to be somebody.”
“I was not an athlete, but I was a break-dancer. I was a beatboxer, an entertainer.”
“For an athlete, there’s no time off… until it’s over.”
“The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.”
“I’ve been through every surgery that any athlete has ever been through, and I’ve prevailed through it.”
“Have you seen any African American athlete that appeals to the urban market actually bring that market to the MMA?”
“I try not to be a typical athlete.”
“I wouldn’t say I’m a phenomenon, just a great athlete.”
“Every athlete, every person is individual.”
“Of course I want to look well and fit – and as an athlete, I want to look strong.”
“I’m not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.”
“As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.”
“Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.”
“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.”
“When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.”
“Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.”
“As an athlete, it’s very important to have an open mind and to be willing to learn.”
“It truly takes a village to become a professional athlete.”