#athlete

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#american culture #appreciation #artists #athletes #community

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music. ↗

— Herb Alpert

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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

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That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things. ↗

— Boris Becker

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We'll do it, we'll do it. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. ↗

— Larry Bird

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I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout. ↗

— Steve Blake

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