Athletic Ability Quotes

• If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

  Isaiah Mustafa

  Sports, Athletic, Waste

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  Bruce Jenner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

  Lou Holtz

  Athlete, Careers, Athletic

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• Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Friendship, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Friendship, Basketball, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

  Mary Decker

  Athlete, Thinking, Winning

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• I wanted to take up a sport the real way and see if I actually had athletic ability. And then I happened to see it was during the Atlanta Olympics. And there was a lot of coverage of archery because the U.S. men's team won all the medals. And I thought, "Wow, that's beautiful. And it's so dramatic, a beautiful sport. And I wonder if I would be good at it?"

  Geena Davis

  Beautiful, Sports, Real

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

  Geena Davis

  Sports, Baseball, Player

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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

  Justin Cole

  Player, College, Athletic

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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• 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.

  Justin Cole

  Player, Space, Athletic

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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• My mom and my real father divorced before I was one. My mom and my stepfather divorced when I was in high school. Then she fell in love with a guy, and the guy died. That was a rough time. She has handled adversity well. That's where I got my work ethic. So my mother's where I got my love of music, but my father's where I got my athletic ability. And my hair loss. And my love of women.

  Kenny Chesney

  Mom, Mother, Real

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

  Matt Holliday

  Blessed, Athletic, Advantage

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• I work out hard, and I do things that I feel make me better throughout the race and after the race. And I feel better mentally because of working out, being prepared and being in great shape. Driving the car, I think with reflexes and things throw at your so quickly, you have to make adjustments - the feeling of your car, the heat. Some tracks can be tough on your neck and arms, and other tracks, not so much. I think there's a lot there that definitely takes some athletic ability, and I think that helps being athletic and being prepared like that. It helps me for sure.

  Kasey Kahne

  Feel Better, Thinking, Race

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• I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don't last forever.

  Arthur Jones

  Sports, Forever, Athletic

  Source: prointerviews.org

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• 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.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Anxiety, Athletic, Mind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.

  John Elway

  Football, Winning, Fire

  John Elway (1997). “Comeback Kid”, Taylor Pub

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• I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

  Doug Stanhope

  Athletic, Musical, Attention

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• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  Dakota Fanning

  Player, Grandparent, Tennis

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• Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

  Tim Tebow

  Taken, Athletic, Heartbeat

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

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Athletic, Looks

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• My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like, `Epidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over.

  Britney Spears

  Mom, Giving, Athletic

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.

  Cardale Jones

  Athletic, Ability, Take Me

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• It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

  Justin Gatlin

  Character, Athletic, Way

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• when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.

  Dhani Jones

  Sports, Football, Book

  "Bengals LB Jones proves to be a true Renaissance man". Interview with Michael Fabiano, www.nfl.com. May 17, 2011.

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• 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?

  Isaac Asimov

  Hatred, Athletic, Admiration

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.18, Bantam

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