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Athletics Competitor Inspirational Quotes (2832)

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the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.
Nicholas Sparks
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I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
Haruki Murakami
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It is to create the best Games the world has ever seen by unlocking the UK's unrivalled passion for sport, by delivering the best Games for athletes to compete in, by showcasing London's unmatched cultural wealth and diversity and by creating a real and lasting legacy.
Sebastian Coe
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But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.
Haruki Murakami
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I save the race for the race and I don't let it all out in practice.
Tyson Gay
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I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.
Tyson Gay
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I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me.
Tyson Gay
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I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the passion I had for track where you want to do an individual sport and be the best, I think - there's nothing that can replace that.
Tyson Gay
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It's all about training smart.
Tyson Gay
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I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.
Tyson Gay
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I always got my work done before playing.
Edwin Moses
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Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.
Nicholas Sparks
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We runners are all a little nutty, but we're good people who just want to enjoy our healthy, primitive challenge. Others may not understand running, but we do, and we cherish it. That's our only message.
John J. Kelley
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The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.
Haruki Murakami
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I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here.
Uta Pippig
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It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.
Ranulph Fiennes
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I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
Carl Lewis
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There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
Ranulph Fiennes
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I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.
Haruki Murakami
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I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.
Nicholas Sparks
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Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
Dick Gregory
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Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.
Nicholas Sparks
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True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
Nicholas Sparks
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The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities.
Reg Revans
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