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I come from a long line of sportsmen.
Armin Zoggeler /
Long Come Line
Long Line
Sportsmen
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I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen.
Gavin Creel / Actor
Sisters
Sportsmen
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This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.
Anatoli Boukreev / Mountaineer
Clear
Roles
Years
Coach
Role
Sportsmen
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Going back in time, the best sportsmen ever have been Olympians.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Olympians
Sportsmen
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Many top professional sportsmen from different sports see a psychologist.
Carl Froch / Professional Boxer
Psychologist
Sportsmen
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A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.
Clive Owen / Actor
Actors
Rooms
Sportsman
Great Better Than
Full
Room
Sportsmen
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Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.
Bill Toomey / Olympic Athlete
Enemies
Fraction
Realized
Sportsmen
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The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.
Martina Navratilova / Tennis Player
Best
Great
Sports
Football
Greatness
Mark
Worst
Best Good Great
Sportsmen
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Test match cricket - it's the most boring thing to watch. How they call themselves sportsmen I'll never know.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Cricket
Boring Thing
Sportsmen
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Sportsmen do not need Bollywood or film industry; they do not need publicity: it could be the other way round.
Gautam Gambhir / Cricketer
Bollywood
Film Industry
Publicity
Round
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Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.
Harsha Bhogle / Commentator
Callous
Caring
Criminals
Diligent
Noble
Cheats
Sportsmen
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People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.
Will Carling / Rugby Player
Complaining
Enjoy
Locked
People
Complain
Sportsmen
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Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.
Jeev Milkha Singh /
Injuries
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Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They're inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously.
Matt Berry /
Funny Great Comedy
Inherently
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One of my favourite sportsmen was Diego Maradona and every time I saw him play football you could see the passion in the heart.
Sourav Ganguly / Cricketer
Favourite
Diego
Sportsmen
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We have a long heritage as a company of serving responsible hunters and sportsmen and women, and we're going to continue doing so.
Doug Mcmillon /
Heritage
Hunters
Serving
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For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
Gary Neville / Soccer Player
Inspirational
Motivational
Sports
Champions
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Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?
Rachel Weisz / Theatre Actress
Acting
Banned
Botox
Expression
Iron
Should
Actor
Why
Frown
Would
Sportsmen
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There are three sportsmen: Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, and Lionel Messi. They perform with excellence, like most of us could never dream of.
Carlos Tevez / Soccer Player
Excellence
Federer
Messi
Roger
Woods
Perform
Lionel
Sportsmen
Tiger
Tiger Woods
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I think it's really difficult for women to be involved with sportsmen that travel, or men to be involved with men or women, whoever it may be.
Dale Steyn /
Sportsmen
Whoever
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A lot of sportsmen get depression, all sorts of mental health issues. A lot of people retire and you don't hear from them, but I don't want to do that.
James Haskell /
Mental Health
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As professional sportsmen at the top of the game we do have worries. We do think of the worst and that's absolutely fine. There's no weakness in feeling like that.
Ben Stokes /
Weakness
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Worries
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Sportsmen just do what they do. I'm not trying to be a role model. If there's any inspiration people can take from me, take as much as you can - from my good and my bad.
Anthony Joshua / Professional Boxer
Inspiration
Good Me Bad
Model
Role Model
Sportsmen
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I love sportsmen's spirit, their ability to come back and override negativity. Michael Owen has been written off so many times, but he will always prove the doubters wrong.
Richard Ashcroft / Musician
Negativity
Override
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I like playing Italian teams. To me, they are the fairest sportsmen of them all. I don't agree with the Italy stereotypes - I trust in what I have experienced and witnessed.
Thomas Muller / Footballer
Italian
Experienced
Fairest
Italy
Sportsmen
Stereotypes
Teams
Witnessed
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All sportsmen have superstitions, or at least they have routines. You look at Rafa Nadal and the way he organises his water bottles. Me, I always put my left pad and left shoe on first.
Jonny Bairstow /
Bottles
Superstitions
Pad
Routines
Shoe
Sportsmen
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I think medically, football is generally well looked after. There are always checks made. Anything which can be done to make footballers or sportsmen of any area safer has to be encouraged.
Gary Lineker / Soccer Player
Checks
Footballers
Encouraged
Medically
Safer
Sportsmen
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To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.
Robert Dallek / Historian
Criminals
Defense
Gun
Hunters
Streets
Breaking
Guns
Homes
Sportsmen
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Although the rugby league fraternity probably don't like it, the rugby union fraternity probably doesn't like it, it's cool for sportsmen, for young kids coming up, to know that there's not just that one door.
Sonny Bill Williams /
Fraternity
Rugby
Union
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Young Kids
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I support the 2nd Amendment - and our sportsmen and sportswomen throughout Minnesota - and I also believe that we need to pass common sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people.
Tina Smith /
Common Sense
Criminals
Minnesota
Amendment
Guns
Reforms
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First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.
Cliff Stearns / Former U.s. Representative
Desirable
Firearms
Generations
Millions
Rights
Second Amendment
Valuable
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Product
Provide
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Supporters
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Many sportsmen, like myself and my team-mates, artists, and musicians all have unique chances and responsibilities to make themselves heard. We have the possibility to reach the parts that political speeches will never reach.
Kevin-Prince Boateng /
Possibility
Chances
Responsibilities
Speeches
Sportsmen
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I tell gun owners and hunters and sportsmen and Second Amendment supporters and Americans every day that all of these freedoms we have are just words on a piece of parchment paper unless we stand up and defend them every day.
Wayne Lapierre / Author
Gun
Hunters
Owners
Second Amendment
Amendment
Defend
Freedoms
Day Words Every Day
Sportsmen
Stand Up
Supporters
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I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
Angela Merkel / Chancellor Of Germany
Education
Finance
Athlete
Decent
Effort
Example
Sorry
Footballers
Athletes
Be Happy
Earn
Just As Much
Least
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I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.
Don Mccullin / Photojournalist
Censorship
Form
Lost
Media
Narcissism
Rich
Rich People
Successful
Basically
Interested
Lost People Way
Rich People Way
Good-Looking
Recognize
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The truth is that some of Mississippi's greatest advocates for conservation and habitat protection are the sportsmen and hunters. Our state's beautiful and abundant natural lands are enhanced, protected and paid for in large part by those who enjoy hunting.
Cindy Hyde-Smith /
Conservation
Habitat
Hunters
Mississippi
Protected
Abundant
Advocate
Enhanced
Large Part
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I would never go to a cinema hall to watch a biopic on a cricketer. I am not a big fan of people making biopics on sportsmen, especially cricketers. I think there are far bigger people who have done much more for the country, and films should be made on them.
Gautam Gambhir / Cricketer
Big Fan
Hall
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
Eddie Redmayne / Actor
Artist
Fashion
Ignorant
Tricky
Bailey
Campaign
Christopher
Featured
Sportsmen
Whom
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A Hamilton-Vettel combination, on paper, would look very attractive to any team. However, what you have to look at is the dynamics of any partnership like that and it's difficult to see how two sportsmen at the absolute top of their game could work in harmony under one roof.
Christian Horner / Race Car Driver
Attractive
Combination
Dynamics
Harmony
Partnership
Roof
Absolute
Work Look Game
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Alistair made my goals feel more achievable. I remember him competing for Great Britain when he was 15, and he came back with his GB kit. I thought, 'Wow, I want a part of that.' Sportsmen can seem distant, like superheroes. Seeing my brother achieve that made me think I could, too.
Jonathan Brownlee /
Achieve
Britain
Brother
Competing
Great Britain
Seeing
Great Me Remember
Distant
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Superheroes
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Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'
Ai Weiwei / Contemporary Artist
Adapted
China
Contemplation
Emphasis
Faster
Higher
Landscape
Philosophy
Pushing
Stronger
Tranquil
Slogan
Easily
Endlessly
Excel
Historically
Olympic
Sportsmen
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My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.
Romesh Gunesekera / Author
Legendary
Range
Amazingly
Cosmopolitan
Folk
Journalists
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Wider
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Apart from being celebrities, there's a huge amount of respect associated with being cricketers and a certain amount of reverence and honour associated with representing India. In people's eyes, apart from other celebrities in India, I think for sportsmen in India there's a certain amount of regard.
Rahul Dravid / Cricketer
Honour
Regard
Representing
Reverence
Apart
Associated
Celebrities
Huge Amount
Sportsmen
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Other sportsmen have confided in me that they're gay. The advice I give is that coming out is great for you as a person, but that you also have to remember you're a role model. As a sportsman you take the money and the glory, but you also take the responsibility that comes with it and make sure the stories that follow are positive.
Gareth Thomas /
Glory
Sportsman
Confided
Role Model
Sportsmen
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