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I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes.

~Brian Baumgartner

Topics: Angeles Athletes Became Charity Circuit Events Fell Game Getting Golf Invited Just Los Los Angeles Lot Love Moved Office Party Played Really Scene Started Successful Were

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As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.

~Brian J. White

Topics: Any Around Athlete Athletes Been Dad Family Godfather Got Happened Hell Involved Kid Little Little Kid Might Mom Mom And Dad Natural Never Only Pressure Red Sprinter Stepmother Were White

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Scientists are sometimes as competitive as professional athletes, maybe.

~Brian Kobilka

Topics: Athletes Competitive Maybe Professional Scientists Sometimes

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A lot of people talk about the one-and-done attitude of college athletes, but if you look at the University of Kentucky, we do build winners.

~Brian Littrell

Topics: About Athletes Attitude Build College Kentucky Look Lot People Talk University Winners You

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I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.

~Brian O'Driscoll

Topics: Academy Athletes Becoming English Focus Huge Ireland Opposed Pass Players Room Rugby Run Should Throw Weights Whether

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As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

~Brian Williams

Topics: Athletes Enter Israel Israeli Known Minute Munich Olympics Position Prepares Previous Refuses Silence Slaughtered Taken Well Well Known Were Wrong

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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Almost Anyone Anywhere Anywhere Else Ashore Athlete Athletes Boxers Cash Country Cuban Despite Effectively Elite Else General Had Impoverished Incentive Leave Lottery Majority See Skills Small Stayed Tickets Vast Vast Majority Want Wash Were Where Why Winning World Would

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Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Any Athletes Baseball Begin Billion Billion Dollars Boxers Capital Cargo Come Cuban Dollars Earth Expensive Field Human Most Other Over Players Represent Ring Sitting Trade World Would

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Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: After Always American Athletes Castro Cuban Defeated Defeating Down His Island Leave Ring States Sums Turning United United States Using Way Were

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Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.

~Bruce Forsyth

Topics: Athletes Ballroom Competitive Dancer Did Know Little More Nothing Olympic Professional Than World

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