Athletic Quotes - Page 19

• Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness.

  Darren McFadden

  Training, Republic, Firsts

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• I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

  Peter M. Brant

  Real, Character, Thinking

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• All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.

  Charles Garfield

  Basketball, Accomplishment, Feelings

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• When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.

  Misty Copeland

  People, Different, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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

  Dan Millman

  Success, Sports, Journey

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• I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Students, Good Students

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• I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moving, Fall

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Hard Times (And Other Stories)”, p.595, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.

  John Armstrong

  Heaven, Soul, Fool

  John Armstrong, John Aikin, William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem, in Four Books”, p.80

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• 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.

  Amanda Schull

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Amanda Schull: Fate intervened with ‘Center Stage’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. August 9, 2010.

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• When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young
  girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.

  Jennie Finch

  Beautiful, Girl, Softball

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