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• Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

  George Steinbrenner

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  Tags in Greatest, Athlete

• Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a ‘yeah’. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I’ve seen both sides and it’s been very educational.

  Evelyn Ashford

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  Tags in Athlete, Realize, Educational

• I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

  Eric Shanteau

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  Tags in People, Give, Credit, Athlete

• I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you’re in, when you train so hard and when you care so much about doing what you do, there’s a little bit of nerves that come with that. But nerves that won’t prevent you form performing, nerves that, hopefully, allow you to be that much more motivated and inspired to do well.

  Sidney Crosby

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  Tags in Athlete

• I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

  Curt Schilling

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  Tags in Athlete

• I was always a mean and lean athlete – not tall – not large.

  Edwin Corley Moses

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  Tags in Self, Athlete

• Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

  Edwin Corley Moses

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  Tags in Parents, Athlete

• To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

  Dale Bryan Murphy

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  Tags in Humbling, Cancer, Fight, Athlete

• It’s that athlete’s obsessiveness – the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it’s what helped me do well in the theater.

  Cathy Rigby

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  Tags in Need, Yourself, Athlete

• I’m not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I’m a female athlete personality.

  Gabrielle Reece

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  Tags in Self, Athlete, Personality

• Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.

  Ato Boldon

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  Tags in Athlete, Coach

• You are an athlete when you’re onstage. You can’t get tired.

  Faye Dunaway

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  Tags in Tired, Athlete

• My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

  Randy Castillo

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  Tags in Athlete, Favorite

• I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I’d taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.

  Shawn Machel Johnson

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  Tags in Athlete, Competitive

• The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He’s the center of a team – doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

  Emil Zatopek

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  Tags in Athlete, Team

• I won’t play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

  Honus Wagner

  Tags in Athlete

• An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

  Emil Zatopek

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  Tags in Athlete, Dreams, Hope

• I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

  Jose Canseco Capas

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  Tags in Athlete

• Athletes are very cool to me.

  Regina King

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  Tags in Athlete

• Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

  Germaine Greer

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  Tags in Competitive, Spiritual, Athlete