If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.
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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.
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I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
quote by Oscar Robertson
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Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.
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The Great Nations Of Europe
I read a book by Alfred Crosby called European Ecological Imperialism. It sounds awful, but it was great. It was about how everywhere Europeans went in the world, their diseases came along with them and killed the native peoples. ";They got TB and typhoid and athlete's foot Diphtheria and the flu."; They got all of them. Except for athlete's foot - I had to contribute something other than what was in the book.
I'll admit to a certain anti-imperialism. I've got stock and yet I root against the stock market every day. I just can't help myself. I'm constitutionally a Cubs fan. I've always rooted for the underdogs, and usually they lose. You know why? 'Cause they're the underdog.
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When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.
quote by Alexis Arguello
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It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.
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Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.
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I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
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Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
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If you don't eat you will die; overeating will shorten your life.
Time and art
Sir, can you teach me archery?
It will take ten years.
I have no time; can you shorten it?
I will then take double the time.
Can you give a crash course?
It will then take your life.
Sir!
No one can master an art
Thinking only time at heart.
29.01.2004
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
quote by Charles Buxton
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Chinese Style Olympia 2008
How great it was in Beijing Olympia
Wisdom and Intellect are it answers.
Used a lot of capitals and manpower
Most sports performed in a bird’s nest
Swimming sports were in a water cubic
Our concept was ‘one man, one dream’
Every body may have the same dreaming
No matter you are Chinese or guests
Bring the same heart to look for success
The starting day performed marvelous shows
Men and women made shapes of symbols
One day by one day different races were in safe
Chinese athletes happily raced with guests
Both the Chinese and the foreigners were happy
American athlete seemed like a swimming jet
He made excellent results gained 8 gold medals
Frog’s style swim champion is a Japanese king
Grouped winner named by the youth of Chinese
American athletes have won world’s success
There were many new and young athletes born
Different races were greatly gaining high results.
Competition was not the main purpose
Chinese needed the world’s united friendship
It’s why we build a nest you comes together
Let the peace forever consists for a whole world
poem by Albert Wong
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I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything.
quote by Shannon Miller
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I'm a golfer - not an athlete.
quote by Lee Westwood
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But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
I just wanted to be an athlete.
quote by Merlin Olsen
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