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I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion.
If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.
Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.
My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing.
I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.
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'm not an athlete dater, really. I would get too jealous. They're really gone all the time. Different hotel rooms.
I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.
The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.
Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.
Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.
I was a Division I college athlete, and I grew up with five brothers and two sisters. I've always been a competitor.
I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.
With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.
I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them.
I've been an athlete most of my life and on a disciplined schedule. Working out for me is just part of my every day.
I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.
Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag.
I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.
As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.
Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.
The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.
Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.
I'm 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.
I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.
Being a runner, professional or recreational, means that you are part of a community that stretches across the globe.
If you don't eat properly, it affects your energy level. You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
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.
Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.
I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides
(Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record) I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.
I loved DDT for the freedom; I was able to tell the wackiest and wildest of stories but also test myself as an athlete.
Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.
There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.
Being vegan doesn't make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.
It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.
When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the World.