Athletics Quotes - Page 4

• All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Faith, Sports, Running

  "This Inspiring, Blind Young Man Is Running the NYC Marathon to Save Lives" by Sibylle Eschapasse, www.theepochtimes.com. October 29, 2015.

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• If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

  Carl Lewis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  Paavo Nurmi

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Athlete

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, Race, Numbers

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• I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

  Abebe Bikila

  Sports, Country, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments: Abebe Bikila's 1960 marathon victory - in pictures" by Steven Bloor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn’t have sisu, that’s like spitting in his face.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Mean, Track And Field, Faces

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• A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

  Lolo Jones

  Success, Sports, Strong Women

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• The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

  Bruce Jenner

  Life, Insecure, Insecurity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Opponents

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• Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Choices

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Good Friend

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• When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Mind

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• You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

  Frederick Lenz

  Football, Health, Buddhism

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• If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Buddhism

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• The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Mind

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• In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end of the field is receiving an impression, a vibration from you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Communication, Health, Buddhism

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• Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Health, Buddhism

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• I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Art, Health

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• If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Workout, Health

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• In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Perfect

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• My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

  Carl Lewis

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

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