Athletics Quotes - Page 5

• Athletics is in my blood.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Blood

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• Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sports, Writing, Alive

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• If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Character, Muscles, Wells

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• The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Motivation, Exercise

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• My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

  Teddy Sears

  Sports, Fun, Ambition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So, what I am learning to do is (to) learn each of their personalities - to study them, to learn how their natural bent is. Is it toward intellectualism. Is it toward athletics? Toward humor? Ministry? What makes each of them tick? And can I help them blossom in their areas of strength and win their hearts in doing so? So, that's one challenge in doing that.

  Alex Kendrick

  Heart, Winning, Personality

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.

  Jill Lepore

  Strong, Hard Work, Boys

  Jill Lepore (2014). “The Secret History of Wonder Woman”, p.319, Vintage

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• But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone before. All I've done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. Athletics aren't just running, it's a way of life

  Percy Cerutty

  Running, Attitude, Ideas

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• On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'

  Catfish Hunter

  Home, Yankees, Two

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• Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki

  Nigel Starmer-Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Gold

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• He's been breaking Olympic records like ninepins

  Des Lynam

  Inspirational, Funny, Records

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• Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Colour

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• I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

  Daley Thompson

  Regret, Eight, Years

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• And the line up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Two

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• Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Vanguard

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• The Americans sowed the seed, and now they have reaped the whirlwind

  Sebastian Coe

  Inspirational, Funny, Whirlwind

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• Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, World

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• The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

  Charlie Pierce

  College, Deceit, Fundamentals

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• Some names to look forward to - perhaps in the future

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Names

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• And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Irony

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• In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Vaults

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• On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Winning

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• Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art, athletics, and music. He was a student of peace and he embodied peace. Sri Chinmoy was a great man and his life's work significantly helped to build world harmony and will continue to do so.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Art, Teaching

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• I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

  Jon Bernthal

  Boxing, Shy, Nervous

  Source: collider.com

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• The waves get high, they get low. It's been a wonderful journey, every bit of it, and that's from every praise to every criticism... To be able to able to hang around athletics for a lifetime and to meet all these wonderful people I've come in contact with, to have been around as many big events as I have, I can't imagine a day when I did not have something to make me happy about sports.

  Brent Musburger

  Sports, Journey, People

  "Brent Musburger reflects on career". Interview with Richard Deitsch, www.si.com. January 6, 2012.

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