As an elite athlete, I trained to win. Training was at times brutal - it has to be when you want to represent your country and to be the world's best.
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.
Once you're a NASCAR champion, you're kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.
We can do a lot of different things as athletes - we can speak, we can mentor, we can coach.
Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.
Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.
Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support.
The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite.
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
[...] elite social engineers appear to be aiming at a "hetero-homo" world, i.e. where individuals are bisexual, promiscuous and bereft of family.
There was a time in 2008 where no one really wanted to talk to the Paralympic athletes.
Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.
Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.
Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.
It is not a cliche to say golf is for the well-off. It is the reality. But the old system which used to make it elite is fading away.
I now have five major titles, and not many athletes can say that.
I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.
A lot of female athletes only have time off when they injure themselves.
A ton of athletes, even if they know your name, pretend they don't.
Books changed my perception about the sacrifices we make as athletes.
My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.
I do support college athletes and the opportunity for them to be paid a stipend.
To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.
I applaud the professional athletes using their platform to voice their opinions.
My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.
As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.
A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them.
I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term.
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
Every elite seeks its own perpetuation, of course, but that project is uniquely difficult in a society that's formally democratic and egalitarian and colorblind.
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.
Puma does a really good job with its athletes and providing what we want.
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?
Athletes love challenges, and golf is something you can never master.
It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.
It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.
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The public, unlike our governing elite, are not obsessed by race and sex. They are rightly interested only in the contents of the person's character.
Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the
American political elite from the beginning.
But when you're cheating against your fellow athletes, that's something I can't forgive.
Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.
The lack of trust in supranational entities and cosmopolitan elite creates a fertile ground for tribalist belongings and reactionary politics.
The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.
For the past, I guess, three years or so when I joined Bullet Club and as a member of The Elite, I was honestly kind of in the shadow of all of my friends.
... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.
We are athletes, and we work very hard in our way to the title.
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.
I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes
I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.
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