Athletics Quotes
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Athletics Quotes & Sayings
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We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over.
— Alberto Juantorena
Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.
— Melissa Harris-Perry
He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.
— Michael Braccia
Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.
— Chrissie Wellington
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.
— Herschel Walker
I grew up knowing I would be good at athletics, and dreams of a Super Bowl were always within reach as long as I progressed.
— Matt Willig
I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.
— Dominique Dawes
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.
— Arthur Lydiard
We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.
— Alberto Juantorena
I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
— Edwin Moses
I can't compare family to athletics.
— Joe Namath
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
— Jesse Jackson
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.
— Kirsty Coventry
I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.
— John Bingham
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.
— Sebastian Coe
You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.
— Jill Lepore
Junior athletics is but one facet of the real gem: life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.
— David Foster Wallace
Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.
— Frederick Lenz
In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
— Daley Thompson
Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.
— Chris Gabrieli
Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.
— Trishelle Cannatella
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
— Avery Brundage
If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.
— Frederick Lenz
If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important.
— Tony Romo
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket ... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
— Jai Courtney
It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory.
— Andre Bramble
For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.
— Joe Jamail
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
— Robert M. Hutchins
On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.
— Michael Johnson
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.
— Percy Cerutty
Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.
— Lauren Fleshman
Athletics have become professionalized.
— Socrates
I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
— Michael East
Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.
— Lindsey Vonn
I've always been really comfortable around athletics, I've just never been comfortable playing anything.
— Amy Adams
When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
— Ken Norton
I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.
— Gerald McRaney
Athletics is a luxury.
— Roger Bannister
The culture that trains women to be acquiescent is fundamentally at odds with the culture of athletics.
— Jere Longman
I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for that's been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.
— Geoff Stults
There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork.
— Lemony Snicket
Athletics is in my blood.
— Haile Gebrselassie
I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.
— Phil McGraw
I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.
— Frederick Lenz
I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.
— Sebastian Coe
We can choose to accept the fact that a challenge may be quite impossible, or we can choose to challenge the impossible.
— Andre Bramble
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.
— Chris Crutcher
Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
— Flea
I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.
— Joe Namath
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
— Roger Staubach
You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.
— Sheryl Swoopes
Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
— Bill Fagerbakke
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
— William Standish Knowles
You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.
— Roger Staubach
I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.
— Percy Cerutty