Athletics Quotes - Page 9

• Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Football, Integrity

  "NFL All-Pro Ray Lewis". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 11, 2011.

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• Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

  Herschel Walker

  Football, Business, Thinking

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• Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

  Clare Balding

  Swimming, Cycling, Games

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• Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We also tend to quit without warning. Refuse to go to school,drop out,quit jobs,leave lovers,move,lose all our money. We get sick of being impressive. Rather,we tire of having to seem impressive. As a rule,most of us never really believed we were any good in the first place.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Jobs, Moving, School

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• Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

  Neil Postman

  People, Culture, News

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.18, Penguin

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• There is no better leader in collegiate athletics than Tom Brady.

  Lloyd Carr

  Leader, Brady, Toms

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• In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics.

  Clair Bee

  Character, Play, People

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• Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Art, Hard Work, Fire

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• In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and integrity. People who have polished their character and integrity until they shine are the ones who can be the real heroes the world needs to solve its problems. I think that, when people have the correct understanding of the meaning of human character, there will be a solution.

  Ilchi Lee

  Art, Real, Integrity

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• 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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