Athletic Quotes - Page 7

• I don't swim! That's like athletic.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Swim

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• Attend your children's athletic events. There's nothing better than watching your child succeed while absolutely loving the opportunity to play in front of you.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Children, Bodybuilding

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• I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby.

  Jim Glennon

  World, May, Rugby

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• I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

  John Travolta

  Backgrounds

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• It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

  Vera Wang

  Sacrifice, Bed, Skating

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• Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

  Johnny Weir

  Skating, Artistic, Figures

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

  Robert Zuppke

  Leadership, Sports, Football

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• A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Judging, Teammate

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.25, Human Kinetics

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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 was always cast doing something athletic. I can't do a cartwheel.

  Tori Spelling

  Cartwheels, Casts, I Can

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• My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

  Grace Jones

  Basketball, Mother, Brother

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• I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.

  Danny Pino

  Brother, Blessed, Men

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• I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?

  John Green

  Girl, Exercise, Negative Words

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.106, Penguin

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• In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Order

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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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• Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.

  Alfred Shrubb

  Running, Form, Exciting

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• The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport.

  Natalie Cook

  Sports, London Olympics, Female

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• First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.

  Branch Rickey

  Winning, Men, Pay The Price

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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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• I'm not super-athletic.

  Andrew Bogut

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• A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.

  E. Michael Burke

  Baseball, Games, Cities

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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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• A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.

  Laurence Olivier

  Sports, Sex, Believe

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