Athletic Quotes

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

You have to transfer your success on the track to your education, because you don't want to waste what you did athletically once your athletic career is over.

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio.

When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.

And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathmatical tragedy

In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players.

I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.

I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it.

When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.

Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.

I'm not super-athletic.

Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

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I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business.

It is my second visit to Korea since the International Junior Athletic Championships in 1992. Both then and now, I felt Korea is an interesting country and the people are very kind.

I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.

I don't swim! That's like athletic.

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.

Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

I'm always doing something new. I took a fencing class - that was awesome. And I do a lot of my own athletic work or stunts.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.

If you spend a lot of time shopping for athletic clothes, you may want to consider spending less time thinking about high school.

I've always been pretty athletic.

A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.

I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.

People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.

I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been a byword for top physical prowess and spectacular athletic performance.

Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.

Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.

I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.