<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Athletes - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3420]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3421]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- that's where it's at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3424</guid></item></channel></rss>