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I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.
I train my entire body to be strong. To be a professional athlete, we need every part to be strong - the core, the legs, arms.
Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
I don't think I'd be the wrestler or the athlete that I am today if I didn't have some of the intergender matches that I have.
The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
Anything I've asked of MGM Grand, they've done for me in a heartbeat. They're all about making entertainers and athletes happy.
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.
It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.
Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.
It's not enough to just test athletes. The athletes themselves need to fight for their right to compete against clean athletes.
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.
If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
There's definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead.
The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.
I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.
The conditioning and the lifestyle changes you have to make to remain a healthy athlete are what molded me into what I am today.
Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.
I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.
People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.
Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become.
As I grew older and the dance became more competitive and more disciplined, that's when I started to realize that I'm an athlete.
Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.
Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
I consider myself an athlete. I train like an athlete, I eat like an athlete, I recover and get sore just like any other athlete.
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 want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.
When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.
I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.
I've come to expect more out of myself - as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete - to reach a better place, a place I've never been.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.
First and foremost I am an American athlete and I am proud to live in a country that encourages diversity, openness and tolerance.
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.
Do not wonder why you are blessed with so much, just understand you have so much so you can help other people have as much as you.
My son, he understands being an athlete and being a student-athlete and how important it is that those two things go hand in hand.
You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug
I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.
There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.
The ultimate dream of an athlete is to compete in the Olympics. For us athletes, that is the zenith. There is nothing beyond that.
Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.
I am an athlete for Christ. That's why I play for Him, to give Him glory, to thank Him for giving me the ability to play football.
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.