Athletic Quotes - Page 16

• Dancing is so physical and so athletic. I think it rings to the boy that is in my soul because you get to run and jump and climb and act as aggressively as you'd like.

  Stephen Boss

  Running, Boys, Thinking

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• We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.

  William James

  Fighting, Attachment, Soul

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.124, Xist Publishing

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• I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama - and love and kindness and understanding and grace.

  Gary Busey

  Football, Kindness, Drama

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.

  Lena Dunham

  Kids, Class, Bed

  "The Conversation With Actor/Writer/Director/Producer (And Runner) Lena Dunham". Interview with Allison Glock, www.espn.com. September 21, 2015.

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• Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

  Michael Johnson

  Believe, Slavery, Genes

  "First Take debate: Michael Johnson's comments about sprinters' ability, 'slavery'". www.espn.com. July 5, 2012.

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• Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.

  Mark Zupan

  Soccer, Hard Work, Player

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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, Degrees

  Source: prointerviews.org

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• We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that helps me with the athleticism.

  Arthur Jones

  Attitude, Different, Helping

  Source: prointerviews.org

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• Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game!

  Lance Berkman

  Games

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• My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.

  Tim Cahill

  Workout, Drinking, Cutting

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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, Feelings

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• There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sports, Mean, Boys

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

  Zig Ziglar

  Practice, Skills, Long

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• A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

  Dan Jenkins

  Lying, Team, Party

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• I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

  Barry Humphries

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• 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.

  Nina Dobrev

  Yoga, Gymnastics, Thinking

  "Nina Dobrev admits to having a burberry addiction" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Hillary Clinton said that her childhood dream was to be an Olympic athlete. But she was not athletic enough. She said she wanted to be an astronaut, but at the time they didn't take women. She said she wanted to go into medicine, but hospitals made her woozy. Should she be telling people this story? I mean she's basically saying she wants to be president because she can't do anything else.

  Jay Leno

  Dream, Athlete, Mean

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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.

  Cathy Freeman

  Responsibility, Association, Busy

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• 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.

  Cathy Freeman

  Country, Korea, Interesting

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• I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.

  Gary Gulman

  Brother, Years, Strangers And Friends

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• As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.

  Chael Sonnen

  Regret, Real, Athlete

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• I do have high expectations for Alex Riley. He seems athletic, articulate and intelligent. Only time will tell how far he goes, but Riley has bonafide potential. FCW did a nice job of preparing Alex for WWE. Alex's future success is largely up to Alex.

  Jim Ross

  Jobs, Nice, Intelligent

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• I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano, violin, cornet or French horn. I had to be pulled away from any athletic participation. Now, at 63, I look back on my athletic feats - All-American, All-Pro Quaterback, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame - and I can honestly say I would trade these all if I had been smart enough to pursue my musical career. YOUNG PEOPLE - don't make the same mistake.

  Otto Graham

  Football, Smart, Mistake

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• I've challenged (Donovan McNabb) to whatever athletic endeavor he wants, but he laughs it off

  Jimmie Johnson

  Laughing, Want, Endeavor

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

  Jeff Fisher

  Running, Kids

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