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  • Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes in space making plays and that's when the game becomes beautiful. You have spacing and skill and coaching. It's all synergetic. You don't have to be a basketball fan to appreciate that. You can be a person who appreciates movement. It's almost like a ballet at that point.

    Source: www.sbnation.com
  • I think in general, people look at all Olympic athletes, look at all superstar athletes, and they say, "Okay, this guy doesn't have any insecurities." They're almost like these icons who - I don't know how to say it, but like they can't make mistakes. But the reality is, and I'll tell you this firsthand, a lot of great athletes have a lot of insecurities, and they have a really hard time dealing with a lot of so-called losing or however you want to classify it.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

  • The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

    Sports   Athlete   Play  
  • There are a lot of young great athletes out there; they're much better athletes than what we were. They're bigger, faster, stronger, unfortunately, there're fewer places to go.

    Source: www.ign.com
  • If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

  • You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

  • I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

  • You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

  • Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

    Baseball   Athlete   Golf  
    "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.
  • People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  • Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

  • Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. The Seven Faces of Intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance, and receptivity. And all seven are expressions of what I imagine that source to look like. The very fact that we exist is proof to me that the nature of that source is creative at its core. And there isn't a person reading this who does not have a gnawing sense inside that there's something they're here to do, something creative.

    Source: www.drwaynedyer.com
  • You can tell everybody that Eddie Robinson's out looking for a job right now, and believe me, he's a great kid. He's happy and he's healthy. All he needs is a couple of weeks to regain game fitness. Put him on the court and when the game counts ... Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing. He's a great athlete, and I love him to death.

    Jobs   Couple   Believe  
  • The potential for greatness lives within us all.

    "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.
  • We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.

  • I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

  • I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends and I want all my friends to be different. I want to play six instruments. I want to be the best in the world at two things. I want to be a great athlete and I want to be a great surgeon. I need to practice very hard every day. I need to sleep as little as possible. I need to read at least one major book every week. And I need to remember that my seventy years are going to go by too quickly.

    Country   Book   Athlete  
  • My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

    Brother   Athlete   Way  
  • I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

  • I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

  • I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

    Athlete   Praying   Used  
  • When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete.

    Athlete   Hockey   Nhl  
  • Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  • That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

  • Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

    "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.
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