Quotes by Athlete

"You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame."

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian Athlete

Sports, Cricket, Country, Fame, Motivation

"Movies are a big part of our Indian culture."

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian Athlete

Culture, Movies, India, Entertainment

"Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping."

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian Athlete

Personal Growth, Self-confidence, Aggression, Sportsmanship, Cricket

"Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision."

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian Athlete

Decision Making, Gut Feeling, Experience, Decision-making, Life Lessons

"If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life."

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian Athlete

Life Choices, Balance, Studies, Cricket

"Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years."

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian Athlete

Career, Cricket, Longevity, Money

"Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Landsend in Mumbai. It was my 100th visit recently, which means I have spent more than 400 days in that hotel, and that is a lot more than I have spent with my family."

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian Athlete

Personal Life, Family, Work-life Balance, Cricket, Time Management

"Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are."

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian Athlete

Sports, Cricket, World Cup, Victory, India

"After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health."

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian Athlete

Sports Development, Sports, Olympics, Infrastructure, Nutrition

"If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time."

Fran Tarkenton, American Athlete

Time, Business, Football, Play

"You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the usual laws of nature; that there was no other group so handsome, so engaged."

Charles Spalding, American Athlete

Nature, People, Feeling, Laws

"It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the people who came in contact with them. They were a unit."

Charles Spalding, American Athlete

People, Being, Feeling

"There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part."

Charles Spalding, American Athlete

Wisdom, Action, Football, Opinions

"I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them."

Mary Decker Slaney, American Athlete

Expectation, Expectations, Relax

"When I put the shot, it's feminine, because I'm female. Athletic motion doesn't have a gender."

Maren Seidler, German Athlete

Gender,

"I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time."

Elizabeth Schwartz, American Athlete

Time, Thought, First, Right

"Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals."

Elizabeth Schwartz, American Athlete

Woman, Women, Athletes, Class, First

"I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling."

Elizabeth Schwartz, American Athlete

People, Feeling, Hearing

"I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix."

Ron Rice, American Athlete

Life, People, Golf, Retirement

"People in the U.S. like good baseball, whether you're on the home team or not."

Hideo Nomo, Japanese Athlete

Home, People, Baseball

"I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic."

Steve McManaman, English Athlete

Football,

"I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more."

Harvey Martin, American Athlete

Life, Abuse, Alcohol, Drugs

"Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try."

Kenny Harrison, American Athlete

Love, Key, Variety

"We have to try and not let the little things go by. It's the little things that win games. It's the little things that often get overlooked that can add two or three more wins."

Kenny Harrison, American Athlete

Games,

"Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson."

Roger Craig, American Athlete

Fear, Football

"President Obama has embraced a partisan, polarizing strategy since day one when he chose hyper-partisan Rahm Emanuel to be his White House Chief of Staff."

Rory Cooper, American Athlete

Strategy, Day, President

"Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days."

Jack Youngblood, American Athlete

Sports, Walking

"Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top."

Jack Youngblood, American Athlete

Sports, Play

"The disappointment of losing is huge."

Jack Youngblood, American Athlete

Sports, Disappointment, Losing

"One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator."

Jack Youngblood, American Athlete

Sports, Day, University

"It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment."

Steve Yzerman, Canadian Athlete

Sports, Flies, Sense

"I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille."

Zinedine Zidane, French Athlete

Identity, First

"I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard."

Zinedine Zidane, French Athlete

Sports, Day, Fight, Play

"The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end."

Zinedine Zidane, French Athlete

Sports, End, Englfight

"I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why."

Barry Zito, American Athlete

Sports, Day, Wind

"All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock."

Cy Young, American Athlete

Sports, Turkey

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"I think my numbers speak for themselves."

Jack Youngblood, American Athlete

Achievement, Numbers

"He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play."

Jack Youngblood, American Athlete

Sports, First, Play

"We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition."

Frank Woolley, English Athlete

Achievement, Play, Tradition

"I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before."

Jennifer Wyatt, Canadian Athlete

Sports, Relax

"I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat."

Early Wynn, American Athlete

Justice, Right

"When I first skated here, I definitely felt small out there because it is such a big surface."

Kristi Yamaguchi, American Athlete

Sports, First

"I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June."

Carl Yastrzemski, American Athlete

Sports, June, May

"The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border."

Dave Winfield, American Athlete

Sports, Canada, First, World, Years

"Now it's on to May, and you know about me and May."

Dave Winfield, American Athlete

Prediction, May, Now

"I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us."

Dave Winfield, American Athlete

Loss, Canada

"I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional."

Katarina Witt, German Athlete

Sports, First, Germany

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"Movies are a big part of our Indian culture."

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"Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping."

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"Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision."

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"If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life."

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"Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years."

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"Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Landsend in Mumbai. It was my 100th visit recently, which means I have spent more than 400 days in that hotel, and that is a lot more than I have spent with my family."

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"After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health."

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"If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time."

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"You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the usual laws of nature; that there was no other group so handsome, so engaged."

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"It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the people who came in contact with them. They were a unit."

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"There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part."

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"I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them."

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"When I put the shot, it's feminine, because I'm female. Athletic motion doesn't have a gender."

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"I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time."

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"Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals."

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"I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling."

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"I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix."

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"People in the U.S. like good baseball, whether you're on the home team or not."

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"I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic."

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"I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more."

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"Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try."

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"We have to try and not let the little things go by. It's the little things that win games. It's the little things that often get overlooked that can add two or three more wins."

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"Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson."

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"President Obama has embraced a partisan, polarizing strategy since day one when he chose hyper-partisan Rahm Emanuel to be his White House Chief of Staff."

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"Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days."

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"Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top."

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"The disappointment of losing is huge."

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"One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator."

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"And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing."

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"I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy."

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"I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it."

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"It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment."

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"I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille."

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"I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard."

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"The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end."

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"I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why."

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"All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock."

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"I think my numbers speak for themselves."

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"He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play."