{"quotes":[{"text":"No wrong in aiming or applauding the win but always agnize one's efforts.","author":"Mohith Agadi","tags":["athlete","athletes","athletics","games","inspiration","inspirational","motivation","motivational","olympic","olympics","quote","quotes","by-mohith","sportive","sports","sports"],"id":4033,"author_id":"Mohith+Agadi"},{"text":"Awake! Arise! The hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more.Awake! Arise! The athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest;The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best.","author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","tags":["agriculture","athlete","athletes","carpe-diem","fallow","farm","farming","haste","inspirational","motivational","opportunity","opportunity-knocks","seize-the-day","weeds"],"id":5761,"author_id":"Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow"},{"text":"When you’re a professional athlete, you get paid millions of dollars for doing something that’s not only fun, but also physical and badass. You have fans: pathetic people without their own lives or hopes or dreams that measure their happiness on your weekly performance (this still boggles my mind, but in the best way possible—however, my role as a fan now is quite detached). You get to travel around to different cities and fuck their most beautiful women. You are given license to do pretty much whatever you want all the time, and are forgiven easily and often instantly when caught doing anything illegal. Professional athletes can literally get away with murder.","author":"A.D. Aliwat","tags":["alpha","athletes","murder","sports"],"id":9919,"author_id":"A.D.+Aliwat"},{"text":"Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.).","author":"Robert M. Sapolsky","tags":["athletes","personality"],"id":32767,"author_id":"Robert+M.+Sapolsky"},{"text":"I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest.","author":"Colson Whitehead","tags":["athletes","athleticism","laziness","sports","unathleticism"],"id":34358,"author_id":"Colson+Whitehead"},{"text":"Life isn't about how comfortable I can be it is about learning how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.","author":"Heather Gillis","tags":["athletes","child-infant-loss","grief-inspirational","heaven","inspirational-life","inspirational","overcoming-grief"],"id":59118,"author_id":"Heather+Gillis"},{"text":"To describe yourself as an entrepreneur or a disrupter is as meaningless as describing yourself as an athlete or a thinker. Really? What sports do you play? What do you think about?","author":"Eric Weiner","tags":["athletes","disruption","entrepreneur","meaningless","thinkers"],"id":72051,"author_id":"Eric+Weiner"},{"text":"The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness.","author":"Donald Bradman","tags":["ambition","athletes","dignity","sportsman"],"id":107499,"author_id":"Donald+Bradman"},{"text":"Just like the cast of a great movie and the career of great athletes few success stories are a one man show. Build your team and grow.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["achievement","aspirations","athletes","development","dreams","goals","growth","help","leaning","movies","on-success","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","self","self-development","sport","succes","support","teamwork","what-it-takes"],"id":114956,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.","author":"Neal Stephenson","tags":["athletes","athleticism","brainiac","brains","bravery","breed","caveman","complexity","future","gatherer","geeks","genius","hospital","humanity","hunter","hunter-gatherer","intelligence","intensive-care","mastery","nerds","patients","society","technology"],"id":197100,"author_id":"Neal+Stephenson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}