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Obviously, diet is important for an athlete, but I don't have anyone telling me, 'You can eat this, but don't try that.'
Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
I'm an athlete; my dad had made sure I played all the same sports as boys growing up, so I was always super competitive.
In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.
I would say, at least once a week, I get approached by a pro athlete or a celebrity or someone who wants some work done.
All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.
The 'New York Daily News' called me the most reviled athlete ever in sports history in New York. I don't listen to them.
What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.
You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.
My mindset as an athlete and as a man is to accept what God is asking me to do and to live my life expressing God's word.
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.
The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.
Being a minority athlete in this sport, it's been wrought with challenges, but I wouldn't consider myself a trail blazer.
Whether you're a veteran like me or a high school athlete, the most important thing you can do is keep your body healthy.
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow.
People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ask any athlete. One of his dreams is to play in New York wearing a Knicks uniform. It's also always been a dream of mine.
The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.
It`s interesting about people who choke. I`m, believe it or not, a good athlete. I`ve watched people choke over the years.
An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.
As a competitor and an athlete, you have to believe in yourself. And you have to believe in the people who believe in you.
We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?
I'm not an educated woman. What am I gonna do for the rest of my life? I'm an athlete... And now I have absolutely nothing.
If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.
Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.
There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.
Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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.
Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.
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.
I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a cameo.
We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.
If you're an athlete in this game, you have to protect your own interests, and you have to protect your body and your family.
To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.
I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.
Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.
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.
As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.
The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
I surfed until I was 18, and being the athlete that I am, I got really frustrated with how I wasn't really getting any better.
The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.
I'm an athlete. I play basketball and football and all that with a bunch of other men, but that doesn't impact me emotionally.
Every professional athlete has fear, doubts and negative thoughts. But people expect you to just ignore them and move forward.