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470 Athlete Quotes

Just set yourself a goal and try and stick to it. Because you’ll always end up better than where you started.

Stick Goal End Better
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No matter how big and strong you are even Tyson said he was scared as hell walking to the ring. Everyone feels the pressure.

Strong Big Pressure Matter
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From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It’s the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategize your mindset.

Win Battle War Mindset
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When you are around people who have money, you realize money isn’t that impressive, it’s about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.

Conduct Money Around People
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People have built me up to be untouchable, unbeatable, invincible, and I’m not that. I am a man, and I am a winner, but that can change in a second.

Winner Change Second People
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Sleeping is like meditation: it’s good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

Meditation Body Mind Down
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Cardio is a nice way to start the morning, man. Whether you sit on the bike for half an hour or throw on two jumpers and just sweat, it’s good to get up, get the body active, put on your headphones, and just pedal away.

Start Morning Active Sweat
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I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learned that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination.

Learn Violence Culture Sheer
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You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there are limits, you’ve already set yourself up to fail.

Speak Place Limit Fail
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Don’t worry about the title. Worry about what you’ve got to do today, tomorrow, the next day, and that title will be waiting for you.

Today Worry Title About
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It’s hard to say I don’t like being famous, but how I feel is that I don’t see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.

Hard Being Famous Person
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Sportsmen just do what they do. I’m not trying to be a role model. If there’s any inspiration people can take from me, take as much as you can – from my good and my bad.

Role Good Inspiration Much
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Prayer is a form of meditation, isn’t it? It’s the law of attraction: whatever you put out into the universe is what you receive. It’s just kind of putting your thoughts out into the universe.

Form Meditate Universe Thought
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It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the physical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.

Certain Become Overcome Aspect
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The belt doesn’t represent me; it’s how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.

Deal Champion Sign People
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People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail – that’s no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.

Crime Reward Low End
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Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I’m a man that will always follow my own path.

Positive Around Always Spirit
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I don’t have a preferred religion – I’d have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I’ve grown into my own man, I don’t attach myself to a religion – 100 percent, I have faith. Then it’s locking into what suits me.

Faith Attach Myself Suit
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Prayer is a method practiced from ancient days, so it’s very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people, gladiators would do years ago, so we’re just maintaining that routine.

Method Ancient Very Year
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What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevor Berbick and how he crushed him. You have to rip the title away from him.

Great Before Away Make
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When you are caught with a big shot, you don’t really feel it. It’s like being in a car crash, and maybe your arm has been ripped off, it is only when you look down at it that you realize it has happened.

Shot Crash Realize When
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The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That’s my main opponent – making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won’t let you.

More Head Main Body
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As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.

Long Make Success Everything
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When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time. If you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. Win the day!

Wake Mountain Distance Trip
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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Rest Suffer Quit Life
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Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

Down Life Past Move
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I feel like, even if something goes wrong, I have confidence in myself and my team that we'll fix it.

Feel Fix Wrong Confidence
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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Success Accident Love Work
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A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Attitude Bless Talent Heart
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

Hard Restrict Enjoy Work
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When I started going to school, I started getting used to things, like the language. After that, I started adapting to school, friends, and everything. It was really difficult, to start with, but I survived.

School Language Friend Start
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It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

Easy Faith Winner Discipline
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The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.

Bottom Start Head Main
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I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

Accept Accidental Come Hard
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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
Enthusiasm Everything Guitar Like
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When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Dangerous Place Footballer Friend
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Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Dead Earth End Everything
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If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

Easy Education Give Manipulate
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I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

Awake Honest Know Lie
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A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.

Because Becomes Colleagues Confidence
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I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.

Always Prepared Care Father
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I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

Being About Individual Way
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I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.

Believe Cannot Career Explain
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If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

Allowed Away Because Best
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When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

Against Because Difficult Dirty
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When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.
Lot Stupid Things You
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All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

Life Thank God Family
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Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.

Abroad Always Both Brazil
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No matter how far you get ahead of me, I’m gonna catch you. That’s my mentality that I go there with

Catch Mentality Ahead Far
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Don’t think about the start of the race.

About Start Race Think
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