"We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over."

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"We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over."

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"I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012."

Linford Christie, British Athlete

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"Today, many fans are saddened and upset by the lack of integrity they see in professional boxing that has significantly weakened the sport - the most deplorable problem of which is the treatment of the sport's athletes."

Charles W. Pickering, American Judge

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"I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease."

Bill Toomey, American Athlete

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"We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star."

Linford Christie, British Athlete

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"We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen."

Shannon Miller, American Athlete

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"That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes."

Martina Hingis, Czechoslovakian Athlete

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"I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation."

Bob Costas, American Celebrity

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"I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet."

Edwin Moses, American Athlete

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"That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection."

Armstrong Williams, American Journalist

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"I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner."

Athletes

"I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of."

Family

"The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete."

Life

"My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games."

Society

"Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion."

Life

"I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school."

Education

"I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport."

Nation

"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."

Athletes

"We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world."

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"We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions."

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