Athletic Quotes - Page 12

• Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Practice, Skills

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.236, Penguin

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• Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

  Sebastian Coe

  Athlete, Next Week, Years

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• You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

  Steffi Graf

  Children, Growing Up, Safe Environment

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• Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in ... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.

  Tatjana Patitz

  Girl, Zero, Nice

  "The forgotten supermodel" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2009.

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• Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Talking, Challenges

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• The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

  Pete Carroll

  Football, Moving, Player

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• I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

  Scott Brooks

  Kids, College, Able

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• Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.

  Stanley Fish

  Feelings, Junk, Inquiry

  Stanley Fish (2012). “Save the World on Your Own Time”, p.35, Oxford University Press

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• I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

  Scott MacDonald

  Party, White, World

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• Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are programmed into your cordless phone, your telephone plan is suited to your needs, and your various gizmos interact without conflict. Your spouse is athletic, your kids are bright, your job is rewarding, your promotions are inevitable, everywhere you need to be comes with its own accessible parking. You look great in casual slacks.

  David Brooks

  Jobs, Kids, Phones

  David Brooks (2004). “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.

  Matt Kuchar

  Golf, Games, Trying

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• Something I still work on today is ankle flexion—ankle pressure in your boots. There is no way to turn or have your skis carve unless you’re going down the hill leaning forward, and that puts you in a good athletic position to do whatever you want to do on your skis—make quick turns, make long turns, or absorb bumps.

  Ted Ligety

  Long, Bumps, Boots

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• Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

  Judith Viorst

  Sexy, Smart, Love Is

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• Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

  Keeth Smart

  Sports, Competition, Training

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

  Tony Gubba

  Soccer, Tragedy, Wigan

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• Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

  Norah Vincent

  Prayer, Real, Competition

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• Now, I know it’s hard, particularly for our young people, to choose to observe the Sabbath day when athletic teams on which they so much want to participate regularly schedule games on Sunday. I too know it seems trivial to many who are in need of just a few items on the Sabbath to quickly stop at a convenience store to make a Sunday purchase. But I also know that remembering to keep the Sabbath day holy is one of the most important commandments we can observe in preparing us to be the recipients of the whisperings of the Spirit

  H. David Burton

  Team, Sunday, Games

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• The Complete Idiots Guide to Eating Raw is ideal for anyone looking to seamlessly adopt eating habits that will benefit overall health and boost athletic performance.

  Brendan Brazier

  Benefits, Idiot, Eating

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• Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Office, Digging

  Billy Graham (1995). “Secret of happiness, The”

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• 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.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Beautiful, Smart, People

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• Living is like training for an athletic event. You have to have goals and challenges; you need to exercise and eat right.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Goal, Challenges

  Source: my-wellness-coach.typepad.com

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• Ive never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. Im more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.

  Katherine Webb

  Girl, Dresses, Kind

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

  Cardale Jones

  Athletic Ability, Ability, Take Me

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• I never got into MMA to be famous, I got into it to compete and pursue athletic aspirations. They were my pure intentions. I came from a true sport, an Olympic background, winning multiple national, international and Olympic medals. So I entered MMA as a sport.

  Matt Lindland

  Sports, Winning, Mma

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Look at the NBA players back when Magic and Kareem played in the early 80's with the short shorts, look at what Michael looked like when he first came in the league compared to when he left. Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Player, Nba

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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