Athletics Quotes - Page 7

• I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Children, Dad

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• I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.

  Percy Cerutty

  Goal, Achievement, Training

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• It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Children, School, Thinking

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• The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.

  Steve Ovett

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Art, Strong, Educational

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• The American's head are on their chins a little bit at the moment

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Littles

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• She hasn't run faster than herself before

  Zola Budd

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• The Kenyans haven't done much in the last two games, in fact they haven't competed since 1972

  Brendan Foster

  Inspirational, Funny, Games

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• The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Games

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• Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• And the mile once again becomes the focal point where it's always been

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Miles

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• Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor.

  Bill Toomey

  Inspirational, Funny, Doctors

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• During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

  Daley Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Gold

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• After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I'm doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.

  Jeremy Campbell

  Inspirational, Funny, Javelin

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• I like extreme athletics, extreme meditation and extremely beautiful women. Perhaps I'm an extreme person, or it's simply my Karma. But I must tell you, as if you hadn't read about me in a newspaper or seen me on a magazine format television show, there are extreme risks involved with all three.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Karma, Meditation

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• Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stress, People, Drug

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• I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.

  Geoff Stults

  Thinking, Humbling Experiences, Prepared

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• I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm a product of Wonder Woman comic books

  Nina Kuscsik

  Inspirational, Funny, Baby

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• There's lots of people my age (and younger) that have grown up in chaotic environments and I just happen to be one of the first ones to make it to pro sports. It's more a societal thing than an athletics thing.

  Chris Kluwe

  Sports, People, Age

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• A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

  Chris Crutcher

  Sports, Integrity, People

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• I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

  Dominique Dawes

  Believe, Athlete, Young

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• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics.

  Karen DeCrow

  Girl, School

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• Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

  George Vecsey

  Softball, Baseball, Player

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• If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

  Bear Bryant

  Self, Discipline, Worthwhile

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• The whole sexiness thing-I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. But it has helped the sport grow. I think it changes how people see women's athletics.

  Jennie Finch

  Sports, Thinking, People

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