Athletic Quotes - Page 15

• I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

  Akshay Kumar

  Guy, Doe, Actors

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• Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.

  Derek Jeter

  Running, Opportunity, People

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• Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

  "Do Blacks Dominate Sports Because of Genetics?". "Both Sides with Jesse Jackson", www.cnn.com. July 23, 2000.

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• I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Girl, Sports, Football

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• I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

  Michael Franti

  Basketball, School, College

  "POP MUSIC : A 'News Junkie' and His Rap : 10 QUESTIONS : MICHAEL FRANTI : Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. August 23, 1992.

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• There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.

  Tim Ferriss

  Views, Doctors, Interesting

  "Tim Ferriss Wants to Hack Your Body". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

  Idris Elba

  Real, Kids, Training

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• I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

  Fred Durst

  Soccer, School, Kids

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• I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Girl, Fashion, Mean

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• I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.

  Tim Tebow

  Jobs, Believe, Blessed

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• In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

  Daley Thompson

  Motivation, Heart, Thinking

  Interview With Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2008.

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• Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Bigger, Evolve

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

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• When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Looks, Wealth

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• I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.

  Janet Evanovich

  World, Lines, May

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.

  Randy Pausch

  Jobs, Book, College

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Believe, Intelligent, Average

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• Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.

  Megan McCafferty

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Feet, Looks, Body

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.184, Harlequin

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• He rose, offering his hand to Evanlyn to assist her. Even though she was lithe and athletic as a cat, she took it, enjoying the contact. She saw Horace's slight frown as she did so and smiled to herself. A girl can never have too many admirers, she thought. Will seemed unperturbed by the fact that she retained hold of Selethen's hand a little longer than politeness dictated. But then, Ranger's were trained to look imperturbable. He was probably seething with jealousy, she thought.

  John Flanagan

  Girl, Cat, Offering

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• I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Girl, Smart, Fall

  Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins

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• Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.

  Dan Brown

  Reading, Men, Ivy

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• Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Running, School, Years

  Augusten Burroughs (2007). “Possible Side Effects”, p.261, Macmillan

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• Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Hippie, Stuff

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sports, Growing Up, Class

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “George Will vs. Nick Hornby: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Smart, Lasts, Forget

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