Athletic Quotes - Page 14

• Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

  Jennifer Shahade

  War, Champion, Victory

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• I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Practice, Skills

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.236, Penguin

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• Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

  Sebastian Coe

  Athlete, Next Week, Years

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• Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

  Norah Vincent

  Prayer, Real, Competition

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• And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathmatical tragedy

  Tony Gubba

  Soccer, Tragedy, Wigan

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• Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

  Keeth Smart

  Sports, Competition, Training

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• Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

  Judith Viorst

  Sexy, Smart, Love Is

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• Something I still work on today is ankle flexion—ankle pressure in your boots. There is no way to turn or have your skis carve unless you’re going down the hill leaning forward, and that puts you in a good athletic position to do whatever you want to do on your skis—make quick turns, make long turns, or absorb bumps.

  Ted Ligety

  Long, Bumps, Boots

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• As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.

  Matt Kuchar

  Golf, Games, Trying

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• Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are programmed into your cordless phone, your telephone plan is suited to your needs, and your various gizmos interact without conflict. Your spouse is athletic, your kids are bright, your job is rewarding, your promotions are inevitable, everywhere you need to be comes with its own accessible parking. You look great in casual slacks.

  David Brooks

  Jobs, Kids, Phones

  David Brooks (2004). “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

  Scott MacDonald

  Party, White, World

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• Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.

  Stanley Fish

  Feelings, Junk, Inquiry

  Stanley Fish (2012). “Save the World on Your Own Time”, p.35, Oxford University Press

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• I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

  Scott Brooks

  Kids, College, Able

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• The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

  Pete Carroll

  Football, Moving, Player

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• Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Talking, Challenges

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• Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in ... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.

  Tatjana Patitz

  Girl, Zero, Nice

  "The forgotten supermodel" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2009.

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• You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

  Steffi Graf

  Children, Growing Up, Safe Environment

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• I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.

  Freeman Dyson

  Revenge, Science, Boys

  "Brilliant Light" by Oliver Sacks, www.newyorker.com. December 20, 1999.

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• It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

  Virginia Wade

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

  Dennis Quaid

  Baseball, Real, Careers

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• I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

  Joe Namath

  Sports, Athletics, Focused

  "Football Great Joe Namath Earns College Degree 42 Years Later". www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2007.

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• I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.

  Alanis Morissette

  Self, Surfing, Training

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• And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight.

  Jeremy Lin

  Fighting, People, Asian

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• 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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