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I have been dubbed 'the girl who puts the glamour into hammer'
Sep 10, 2025
Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.
Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.
I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time
Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.
When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.
Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
Great teams work harder after a tough loss.
Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.
Just go out there and do what you've got to do.
Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
Sweet baby Jesus, Blue Eyes was... He was gorgeous in all the ways that made girls do stupid things. He was tall, a good head or two taller than me and broad at the shoulders, but tapered at the waist. An athlete's body - like a swimmer's. Wavy black hair toppled over his forehead, brushing matching eyebrows. Broad cheekbones and wide, expressive lips completed the package created for girls to drool over. And with those sapphire-colored eyes, holy moley...
I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.
Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day were simply humble in our victory. I believe we were more mature then...Maybe it's because the media puts so much pressure on athletes; maybe it's also the money. In my day we competed for the love of the sport...In my day we patted the guy who beat us on the back, wished him well, and that was it.
Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.
Athlete or not, I’m going to make sure you know how to read.
You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug
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.
Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.
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.
Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.
Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.
My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.
I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.
Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.