"As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals."
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"To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written."
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"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."
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"And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever."
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"When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete."
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"In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball."
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"If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do."
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"I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul."
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"When you are public figure, you're an athlete or actor, that is your job to speak out on certain things. I think you speak out on what you desire to speak out on or your passionate about."
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"Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what you're the fastest."
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"That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection."
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"I think the fans, if you want to actually learn about us, I think you have to go way more intricate than just what you see on TV, because that's whatever they want to report. But it's just so much going on, and when you talk about being in our world you have to understand we're individuals too. We're not just athletes. No, we're fathers, we're sons. So when you put us through a job shortage you take away everything that we built."
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"The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us."
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"Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life."
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"Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think."
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"I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it."
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"One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom."
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"As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich."
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"There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine."
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"I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life."
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