I just wanted to be an athlete.
Merlin Olsen
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Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.
Bill Goldberg
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Coos Bay is a sports-minded town. You had to be an athlete to be somebody.
Steve Prefontaine
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The prostheses do not run the race on their own: there is an athlete who does the work, and the prosthetics do not make a significant difference to the time.
Alan Oliveira
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Obviously, that's the thing any athlete wants to be able to do, to take weaknesses and turn them into strengths.
Robert Whittaker
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I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.
Will McDonough
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I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.
Masahiro Tanaka
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The thing about Brock has always been, who can push Brock to a level where you actually get to see the best of Brock Lesnar, because very rarely have people ever gotten a chance to see that. I mean, really, who can keep up with him? This is not wrestling hype: he's a once-in-a-lifetime athlete.
Paul Heyman
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As an athlete, I've always been very proud to represent the United States.
Michelle Kwan
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I'm an athlete - my legs were everything. I had no idea what my life would be like without them.
Lauren Wasser
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There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete.
Lolo Jones
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I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.
Keegan-Michael Key
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It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
Jaycie Phelps
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I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.
Gene Kelly
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I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone. But for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete - incredible. Just legendary.
Jose Canseco
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Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.
Al Kaline
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I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.
Johnny Mathis
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Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.
Elana Meyers
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The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
Dennis Rodman
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
Yanni
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I'm not an athlete dater, really. I would get too jealous. They're really gone all the time. Different hotel rooms.
Chrissy Teigen
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You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
Vernon Wells
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I surfed until I was 18, and being the athlete that I am, I got really frustrated with how I wasn't really getting any better.
Brett Young
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My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
Randy Castillo
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