#athlete

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

— Lisa Guerrero

#initial #reticence #seriously #some #take

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#best #best time #career #experience #former

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists. ↗

— Neve Campbell

#artists #athletes #certainly #dance #phenomenal

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#athlete #east #first #germany #go

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#bank #best #come #families #forget

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#female #limits #new #possibility #still

It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago. ↗

— Michael East

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When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete. ↗

— Dick Fosbury

#athlete #competing #elite #level #mental

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#difficult #guy #honest #i #i think

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#actor #athlete #becoming #cameo #carl