Athletics Quotes - Page 2

• Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Play

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• The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Fighting

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• Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhist, Health

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• Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Discipline

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• The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Needs

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• There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Buddhism

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• When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Health, Buddhism

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• Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

  Edwin Moses

  School, Scholarship, Majors

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• Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Health, Buddhism

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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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• In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Buddhism

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• I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Thinking

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• The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

  Plato

  Athlete, Savages, Too Much

  Plato, Justin Kaplan (1951). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Health, Buddhism

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• Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Firsts

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Differences

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• Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Moving, Health

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• As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Two

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• It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Fun, Moving

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• If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Home, Health

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• Athletics is a luxury.

  Roger Bannister

  Athlete, Luxury, Athletic

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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