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Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

~Dhani Jones

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When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

~Dhani Jones

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When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

~Dick Fosbury

Topics: Against Athlete Competing Elite Level Mental Other Percent Physical Reach You Yourself

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I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

~Dick Fosbury

Topics: Always Athlete Even Evolve Imagined Make Moment Never Olympic Seemed Simply Team Train Trained Until Would

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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

~Dick Gregory

Topics: American American Citizen Athlete Citizen Class Either Entertainer First First Class Going Great Thought Were Wrong

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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

~Dick Gregory

Topics: Airport Athlete Exist Feet Go Like See Something Through Walking White Women Wrong

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I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.

~Dick Schaap

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I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

~Dominique Dawes

Topics: Able Am Athlete Did Doing Empowering Inspiring Love Motivating Motivational Now People Realized Speaker Television Well Work Years I Am I Love

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I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

~Dominique Dawes

Topics: Athlete Athletics Believe Like Love Once Still Things Used Young I Love I Can

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When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Athlete Back Brought Cheaters Cheating Darkness Day Forgotten Glance He Heart Hopes Justice Mind Persistent Really Room Rumors Savage Some Somehow Them Those Where Will

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