Athletics Quotes

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics.

I've always been really comfortable around athletics, I've just never been comfortable playing anything.

We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world.

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

I didn't have the passion for athletics in that way, that there were other parts of me that felt under-served and that needed to be nurtured and needed my energy.

I love coaching. I would probably be coaching. I would work in athletes and work with the youth. I would maybe do personal development and athletics. I would coach in high school or college.

If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

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.

I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.

I want to stay involved in athletics; I want to encourage kids to take part and try to grow the sport.

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.

I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of my own mind. I also find that extreme athletics helps to clarify your mind.

I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.

Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.

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.

It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.

In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics.

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'.

The whole sexiness thing-I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. But it has helped the sport grow. I think it changes how people see women's athletics.

Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.

I honor you for every timethis year you:got back upvibrated highershined your lightand loved and elevatedbeyond—the call of duty.

No wrong in aiming or applauding the win but always agnize one's efforts.

Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.

The more you practice the better you'll be, the harder you train the great in you they'll see.

Someday find my son...tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth."--A Letter to Jesse Owens

There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork.

He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.

One of the privileges of being an athlete is that on days when I have practice and games, I’m present whether I’m present or not. It’s not fair, but that’s the system. What can I do about it?

Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.