Athletic Quotes - Page 10

• A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.

  E. Michael Burke

  Baseball, Games, Cities

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• Qualifying for this Olympic team has been the most stressful experience of my athletic career. It has taught me so much about myself and how to handle high-pressure moments. I've learned to become my own biggest cheerleader, always feeding myself positive thoughts, visualizing myself winning, and most importantly focusing on each individual point.

  Ibtihaj Muhammad

  Team, Winning, Cheerleader

  "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.

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• I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

  Geena Davis

  Sports, Baseball, Player

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

  Harmony Korine

  Moving, Skateboarding, Leap

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I was always considered the athletic one, and that translated into big. I was the big one. Thankfully, so many more body types are accepted these days. What I've been trying to do, and I'm seeing more now with my girlfriends, too, is celebrate other people.

  Brooke Shields

  Girlfriend, People, Trying

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• When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some fear that makes me put the brakes on a bit.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Way, Faces, Performing

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• When I stopped looking at food as a reward or a celebration and began looking at food as energy to fuel my athletic ambitions, that really kind of changed the whole world for me. That was the real 'aha!' moment.

  Joe Bastianich

  Real, Ambition, Energy

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• Interchangeability and versatility unlocks so many styles of play for your team. It's not the end all be all, but it helps you handle adversity so much better. It presents so many different matchup problems for the other team because they have to worry about so many different things. You can have long and athletic guys but if they're dummies then you're in trouble. What the Warriors have is amazing versatility, but also versatility in their basketball IQ.

  Shane Battier

  Basketball, Team, Adversity

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• I have never been skinny. The thing is, I was in an industry where being athletic was not celebrated. I have friends who are supermodels, and I never had that body. I've never been asked to walk in a Versace show. I was doing the covers of the magazines while they were cruising the clothes down the runway, and then they'd bring me the clothes and I'd have to photograph them.

  Brooke Shields

  Photograph, Versace, Supermodel

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• I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.

  Justin Cole

  Player, Space, Able

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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• But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Class, Firsts

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.

  Ida Tarbell

  Running, Business, Men

  "The History of the Standard Oil Company". Book by Ida Tarbell (originally serialized in nineteen parts in McClure's Magazine), 1904.

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• Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Skills, Young

  Nancy Etcoff (2011). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, p.77, Anchor

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• I'm a rock climber. I really specialize in doing first ascents, and finding new routes outside, as opposed to doing competitions. I focus my energy on going out into nature and finding these new climbs. For me, it's not just this athletic pursuit - it's a really creative, artistic thing of finding these amazing formations out in nature, and mixing that with this high level of athleticism.

  Chris Sharma

  Rocks, Focus, Creative

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• Look at the NBA players back when Magic and Kareem played in the early 80's with the short shorts, look at what Michael looked like when he first came in the league compared to when he left. Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Player, Nba

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• Living is like training for an athletic event. You have to have goals and challenges; you need to exercise and eat right.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Goal, Challenges

  Source: my-wellness-coach.typepad.com

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• No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Men, Nfl, Youth

  Amos Alonzo Stagg, Wesley Winans Stout (1927). “Touchdown!: As told by Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg to Wesley Winans Stout”

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• I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.

  Joan Smalls

  Basketball, Running, Volleyball

  "VIDEO: How to Work Out Like Joan Smalls". Interview, www.elle.com. September 16, 2014.

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• I have a martial arts background and I'm very athletic. So I think if I can find a film where a female is a badass in it - that would just be amazing. They are sometimes hard to find, but I definitely want to do something like that.

  Ashley Greene

  Art, Badass, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Ashley Greene Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN, LOL, THE APPARITION, Bill Condon and More at Comic-Con". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 26, 2011.

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• Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.

  Connor Franta

  Girl, Smart, Ambition

  Connor Franta (2015). “A Work in Progress: A Memoir”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• He [Charlie Chaplin] was always playing as if it were to the camera, if you've seen the live shots of him when he's going to an opening night or something like that. And the skills that he had were beyond my ability to throw together. You just couldn't really compete with him. He was too athletic at that.

  Eddie Izzard

  Night, Skills, Together

  "Eddie Izzard on Powers, playing piano at Live 8, and having fun on Hannibal". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2015.

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• I will never forget my time with Athletic Club and I'd like to thank the fans and staff for all their support and, above all, wish all my fantastic former team-mates all the best for the future.

  Ander Herrera

  Team, Support, Wish

  "Luke Shaw passes medical at Manchester United for £30m move" by The Press Association, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2014.

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• [On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

  Barbara Bergmann

  Race, Practice, Giving

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• Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

  Mike Nichols

  Girl, Handsome, Way

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• Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.

  Stephen Colbert

  Beautiful, Comedian, Endeavor

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