#athlete

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

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The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. ↗

— Martha Graham

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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

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

— Maurice Greene

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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

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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

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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

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