I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America’s southernmost territory.
To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It’s often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It’s the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.
Nick Aldis is a great champion. He looks like a professional athlete. He dresses like one. He carries it well.
I like to think that I’m a family man first and a professional athlete second.
No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.
Being a professional athlete, people respect the fact that I respect eSports professional gamers.
You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.
There are perks to being the partner of a professional athlete – we were invited into beautiful homes, enjoyed stunning sponsor cars, got special treatment at restaurants, and attended many exquisite functions.
With every passing week, I get an opportunity to improve my acting because I get to do it day in, day out. So a lot of times, I compare it to being a professional athlete.
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.
Even if you don’t become a professional athlete, the experience of working with a team, knowing how to set goals, and working every day to figure out how to accomplish those goals definitely gives you confidence to apply those same characteristics to other life challenges.
It’s an amazing life, don’t get me wrong. But being a professional athlete, is… is not as glamorous as everybody sets it out to be.
As a professional athlete, I’ve been booed by 18,000 people.
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
I always thought I would make it as a professional athlete but I thought it would be playing soccer.
I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.
I wanted to be a professional athlete. Young men and women from Montana don’t make it to the professional level that often. And I always believed that because I was a great football player that made me better than you. And that’s not the case at all.
Not everyone wants to go to school. Some guys might be blessed with being 6’10 and running and jumping better than anybody, so they want to be a professional athlete. There’s nothing wrong with that.
I’m a professional athlete, I’m a businesswoman and I know who I am.
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.
At the end of the day, if you’re a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school and saying I wanted to be a professional athlete and the teacher replying, ‘You’re not going to make it; it’s not possible.’
I grew up with sports, but I was definitely not good enough to become a professional athlete – I just loved the storytelling aspect of it.
It’s either join the workforce or become a professional athlete, and I’d rather be a pro athlete.
I grew up with sports, but I was definitely not good enough to become a professional athlete – I just loved the storytelling aspect of it.
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
That’s sometimes the hardest thing to do as a professional athlete, because when you get lit up, you wear it, especially as a starting pitcher.
If I’m only defined by my sport, I really have failed. Yes, I’ve opened myself up for more criticism, but I’m a professional athlete. I get criticised every week. I’m used to it. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt, but you get used to it.
The reason why I’m so shredded at 135 is because I’m a professional athlete. I do everything the correct way.
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.
You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.
There are perks to being the partner of a professional athlete – we were invited into beautiful homes, enjoyed stunning sponsor cars, got special treatment at restaurants, and attended many exquisite functions.
I’ve never had to make weight for any sport before. Because, get this, I was not allowed to do any sports in school because I was a professional athlete. I was doing wrestling at the age of 15, so the school districts and the board of directors said that because I was a professional athlete that I couldn’t do anything.
As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
I had a fantastic career. I loved being a professional athlete.
I worked my whole life and dreamed my whole life of being a professional athlete.
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.
I think every young man’s goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it’s the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.
I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn’t going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.
When I stepped away two springs ago, I just really wanted to shift my priorities to be able to be more available and present to show up for things that I felt were mattering more than being a professional athlete.
You’re a person a lot longer before and after you’re a professional athlete. People always say to me, ‘Your image is this, your image is that.’ Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person. That’s what I worry about.
Being a professional athlete, we all want to win the title.
Ever since I was a little boy, I had my eyes set on being able to say I was a professional athlete. I worked hard every day to make sure that it became a possibility and sacrificed a lot for the game of football.
I know America is very nice and very good people. I’m a professional athlete. I come here. I never have a problem with somebody about my religion, about my name. I am happy. I’m always comfortable because I never do anything wrong. All the time I do something right. I follow all the rules.
Being a professional athlete, people respect the fact that I respect eSports professional gamers.
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