Athletics Quotes - Page 10

• Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

  Zola Budd

  Running, Growing Up, Shoes

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• In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

  William Standish Knowles

  Team, Class, Made

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• You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.

  Roger Staubach

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Fighting

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• I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

  Gerald McRaney

  Thinking, Engagement, Levels

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• Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Sports, Team, Two

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• Everybody deserves a shot at playing sports. It shouldn't matter in the least if that person is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Building community through healthy and inclusive activities should be one of the main focuses behind athletics, and that isn't possible if you exclude LGBT individuals, especially our youth.

  Mardy Fish

  Sports, Gay, Bisexual

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• I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.

  Tom Baker

  Wall, Rain, Cutting

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• It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.

  Bobby Knight

  Leadership, Sports, Discipline

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• The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

  William Howard Taft

  Baseball, Games, Amusement

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• I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

  Jai Courtney

  Sports, Guy, Rugby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.

  Steve Mariucci

  People, League, Guy

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• Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

  Sally Pearson

  Fall, Believe, Winning

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

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• These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Sleep, Thinking, Guy

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• All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

  Garth Stein

  Athlete, Games, Interesting

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• I've always been really comfortable around athletics, I've just never been comfortable playing anything.

  Amy Adams

  Comfortable

  "Amy Adams and Clint Eastwood Offer Insights at 'Trouble With the Curve' Press Conference". Interview with Daniel Blake, www.christianpost.com. September 17, 2012.

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• All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.36, Canongate Books

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• Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.

  Bruce Lee

  Skills, Training, Development

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• A truly international field, no Britons involved.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Fields

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• We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Bloopers

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• And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Girl

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• The late start is due to the time.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Late

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• You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.

  Karen Armstrong

  Skills, Years, Law

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• You always gotta continue to hunger. If you're gonna continue in any kind of industry whether music or the film industry or athletics, that drive to become better is what will eventually make you into that superstar everybody else will see.

  Ryan Guzman

  Superstar, Kind, Film

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

  Roger Staubach

  Cutting, Temporary, Short Cuts

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• We've separated from mogul and aerial skiing and we've built our own sport and our own tricks. And now we're going back to the roots. But the Olympics is a world stage for athletics and it's going to be pretty sweet to represent our sport and represent our culture and show everyone what we're all about.

  Nick Goepper

  Sports, Sweet, Roots

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 13, 2014.

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