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“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.”

Author:Ted Simmons

“Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.”

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Author:Bobby Hull

“A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.”

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Author:Tom Seaver

“I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.”

“In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.”

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Author:Leigh Steinberg

“Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.”

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Author:LeBron James

“I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.”

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Author:Lynn Swann

“Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!”

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Author:Kanye West

“Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man's game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don't even have to do that - and they get to wear sneakers.”

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Author:Mitzi Gaynor

“I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional athletes. Everybody thinks it is a bed of roses and it's not.”

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Author:LeBron James

“There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.”

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Author:Robert Griffin III

“There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.”

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Author:Carl Lewis

“You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.”

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Author:Robin Yount

“Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.”

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Author:Derek Jeter

“The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.”

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Author:Frank Shorter

“I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.”

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Author:Ricky Williams

“My heritage is something that I have always been aware of, however, some would say that there is a disproportionately low number of Asians as professional athletes. I take pride in trying my best to be a role model to show young Asian American boys and girls that they are only limited by the size of their dreams.”

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Author:Nathan Adrian

“Unlike boxers-or any professional athlete for that matter-rowers have little motivation to do it longer than necessary. With a modest amount of self-realization, you'll know when you have acquired the nebulous gifts that rowing has to offer, whether it's courage or a strengthened soul or a powerful body. Once you have it, drop back ten yards and punt. Someone new will pick up the ball and run with it.”

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Author:Brad Alan Lewis

“I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club.”

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Author:Alison Sweeney

“Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.”

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Author:Jim Sensenbrenner

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

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Author:Evan Esar

“I have been blessed with a long and healthy career as a professional athlete and as I move forward into the next stage of my life, chiropractic care will continue to be an important part of my game.”

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Author:Jerry Rice

“So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.”

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Author:Brett Favre

“I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.”

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Author:Tim Ferriss

“Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.”

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Author:Roger Angell

“Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder.”

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Author:Tracy Anderson

“Madonna is an athlete; she has to be treated like a professional athlete. She doesn't work out for six hours a day, though, like some of the press says. She never works out for more than two hours a day, and then only when she has the time.”

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Author:Tracy Anderson

“I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.”

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Author:Jose Canseco

“When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.”

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Author:Bob Gibson

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