Athletes Quotes (page 7)

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• sometimes
• women
• effort

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

• people
• hero
• indian

Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done. Russell Means

• engagement
• thinking
• acceptance

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept. Gerald McRaney

• thinking
• nerd
• think

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything. Brian McKnight

• football
• player
• footballers

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes. Ruud Gullit

• serious
• initiation
• initiated

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously. Lisa Guerrero

• going
• relate
• relatable

I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer. Lisa Guerrero

• talks
• woman
• talk to me

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman. Lisa Guerrero

• making
• know
• knows

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick. Lisa Guerrero

• great
• thoughts
• greatness

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class. Dick Gregory

• competition
• spiritual
• soul

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

• women
• great
• greatness

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. Nancy Greene

• great
• sports
• excellence

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do. Maurice Greene

• winning
• world
• hand

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it. Maurice Greene

• life
• work
• sports

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports. Stedman Graham