Athletic Quotes - Page 6

• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Respect, Football

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• It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.

  Herb Elliott

  Spiritual, Inspirational Sports, Athlete

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

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• The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

  Bill Toomey

  Easter, Science, Technique

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• As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

  Brad Sherman

  Achievement, Champion, Honor

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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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• One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

  Bob Richards

  Motivational, Life Lesson, Athlete

  Bob Richards (2009). “The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph”, p.74, Revell

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• Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

  Roger Staubach

  Life, Basketball, Hard Work

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• Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

  Michael Chang

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.

  J. D. Salinger

  School, Together, Gone

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• Women's tennis is getting faster and the girls are getting more athletic, so I need to push myself to become a better athlete. I think 2013 showed me, like a few other years how important being healthy is and how I must listen to my body. During this off season I have been a little smarter on how I train and how I treat my body.

  Maria Sharapova

  Girl, Athlete, Thinking

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• You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.

  Reynolds Price

  Trying, Matter, Needs

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• My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

  Matt Barr

  Football, Dad, Athlete

  Source: collider.com

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• The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony...a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.

  Walter Zettl

  Horse, Expression, Oneness

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• One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

  Michael Shannon

  Sports, Children, Growing Up

  Interview with Paul Rudd, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2013.

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• In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.

  Victoria Wood

  Russia, Bars, Aptitude

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• An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.

  Hedi Slimane

  Fashion, Men, Jeans

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• I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.

  Jeremy Lin

  Thinking, Order, Games

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• I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Achievement, Want, Known

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• Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Mean, Athlete, Endurance

  "CrossFit: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" by Mark Rippetoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2013.

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• Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.

  Joe Bastianich

  Needs, Fuel, Body

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• When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Sports, Physical Things

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• No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

  Robert Zuppke

  Leadership, Sports, Football

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• The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.

  Stella Gibbons

  Art, Epidemics, Years

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I naturally have an athletic build, thick legs yet a lean upper body. I filled out much later than all my classmates, and I thank God for it now. I had to learn to fix what I can and accept what I cannot fix...That's probably the hardest thing.

  Keri Hilson

  Beauty, Filled Out, Thank God

  "Celebrity Body-Image Confessions: How They Turned Insecurities Into What They Love Most About Their Bods" by Anne Jensen, www.glamour.com.

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• Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

  Clive Barnes

  Dance, Ballet, Rooms

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