Athletic Quotes - Page 13

• Judo has been part of Japanese culture for a long time. It makes sense to me that this sport, which is both athletic and philosophical, was created in Japan. It is based on respect for the partner and for our elders as our teachers, which is very important and makes a strong, positive contribution to human relationships, and not only in sports. I am happy that life brought me to this wonderful sport as a child. It is like my first love.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sports, Teacher, Strong

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don't last forever.

  Arthur Jones

  Sports, Forever, Degrees

  Source: prointerviews.org

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• Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.

  Mark Zupan

  Soccer, Hard Work, Player

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• I usually have a hard time with the fit of off-the-rack suits, thanks to my athletic proportions, but somehow Burberry always fits me perfectly. There's no tailoring really required, which is rare for me.

  Henrik Lundqvist

  Hard Times, Suits, Thanks

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

  Michael Johnson

  Believe, Slavery, Genes

  "First Take debate: Michael Johnson's comments about sprinters' ability, 'slavery'". www.espn.com. July 5, 2012.

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• I really learned to approach climbing not just with a pure athletic mentality, but also to appreciate all these beautiful places we get to go to.

  Chris Sharma

  Beautiful, Climbing, Appreciate

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.

  Lena Dunham

  Kids, Class, Bed

  "The Conversation With Actor/Writer/Director/Producer (And Runner) Lena Dunham". Interview with Allison Glock, www.espn.com. September 21, 2015.

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• I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been a byword for top physical prowess and spectacular athletic performance.

  Giorgio Armani

  Sports, Facts, Ancient

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

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• I'm not the most athletic gal, but because making a movie is very physical, I slow down on the Krispy Kreme and Ice Blendeds. I start to get leaner and more focused - like I'm going into a boxing match - because I'm about to really try to put this idea on its feet.

  Ava DuVernay

  Ice, Ideas, Krispy Kreme

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Being athletic has really become a big part of my career.

  Kelly Overton

  Careers, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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• I always wanted and enjoyed sex, but I never put much importance on scoring or having an athletic sex life. I guess I define myself more by my career and my commitment to a relationship than by my ability to have a lot of chicks or achieve ten orgasms in an evening.

  George Carlin

  Sex, Commitment, Careers

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• Now, I know it’s hard, particularly for our young people, to choose to observe the Sabbath day when athletic teams on which they so much want to participate regularly schedule games on Sunday. I too know it seems trivial to many who are in need of just a few items on the Sabbath to quickly stop at a convenience store to make a Sunday purchase. But I also know that remembering to keep the Sabbath day holy is one of the most important commandments we can observe in preparing us to be the recipients of the whisperings of the Spirit

  H. David Burton

  Team, Sunday, Games

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• I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.

  Jasmine Tookes

  Inspirational, Softball, Volleyball

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• I have learned over the years that the strength in a quorum doesn't come from the number of priesthood holders in it. Nor does it come automatically from the age and maturity of the members. Rather, the strength of a quorum comes in large measure from how completely its members are united in righteousness. That unity in a strong quorum of the priesthood is not like anything I have experienced in an athletic team or club or any other organization in the world.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Strong, Team, Maturity

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• You have to transfer your success on the track to your education, because you don't want to waste what you did athletically once your athletic career is over.

  Beau Walker

  Careers, Track, Want

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• When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

  James Keller

  Perseverance, Women, Athlete

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• Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Basketball, Player, Achievement

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• I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump

  Ronnie Corbett

  Boys, Long, Long Jump

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• For next several years PSU can focus on rebuilding its athletic culture, not worrying about whether it's going to a bowl game.

  Mark Emmert

  Years, Games, Worry

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• I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

  Alyson Stoner

  Sports, Dad, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Expression, Soul

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• When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.

  Jim Davidson

  School, Department, Items

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• I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.

  Devon Aoki

  Strong, Very Strong

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He's coming up but he got bigger and stronger, that plus the athleticism. I'm going to have to show him that we're just as athletic in the middleweight division as [they are] in the welterweight division. I think he'll do good in the division but I'm glad I get to welcome him to middleweight.

  Clint Hester

  Workout, Thinking, Stronger

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• Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

  Paul Tsongas

  Butterfly, Swimming, Political

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