"People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable."
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"By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be."
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"Actors are athletes of the heart."
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"Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall."
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"Nowadays, we have to deal with so many more factors that weren't there in the past. It's not enough to be a good rider, if you want to finish at the front. The riders have become incredible athletes. In the past, you could manage the race and fight only on the last laps. Now you need to train hard. You cannot allow yourself to go on track without being at 100 percent."
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"I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling."
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"I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad."
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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."
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"So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat."
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"People are always shocked to hear I'm an athlete by profession and even more shocked when they hear I'm a fencer from the United States. I challenge the stereotype that Muslim women are oppressed and that a Muslim can be American by birth. It's amazing how many assumptions people make, but I embrace the opportunity to use this Olympic platform to educate."
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"It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone."
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"I think the biggest thing for all athletes is recovery - being able to bounce back from week to week, practice to practice, to come back in top form."
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"Recently I donated money to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Foundation in Louisville. I regard that as a kind of payback. He smoothed the way for us. He wasnt just a great person who had conviction, but made the sport of boxing great. He was the first superstar, he made our stock rise. Without him we wouldnt have earned so much. Americans from every walk of life have contributed to the foundation: Bill Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt. Unfortunately I was the only American athlete to make a donation. Theres not enough respect in our business."
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"I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats."
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"I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner."
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"I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics."
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"Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack."
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"Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying."
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"Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to."
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"In a way, after you're done directing there is a sense of amnesia that washes over you, you can't exactly remember how you did things. It's a zone, just like an athlete, when they can't remember what they did, but somehow got it done."
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