Athletic Quotes - Page 16

• I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

  Andrew Young

  Differences, Sportsmanship, Olympics

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• I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'

  Tom Brady

  Guy, Woods, Pants

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

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• If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.

  Eve Arden

  Athlete, Grease, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Principal McGee". "Grease", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhist, Snowboarding

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• It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.

  Jack Abramoff

  Religious, Writing, Work Out

  "Jack Abramoff's prison advice for Bob McDonnell". Interview with Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

  Isaac Asimov

  Hatred, Admiration, Wonder

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.18, Bantam

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• Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

  Brian Kilmeade

  Soccer, Kids, Littles

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• Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me.

  Stephen Colbert

  Beautiful, Reading, Night

  "Stephen Colbert: The Playboy Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.

  Gracie Gold

  Beautiful, Skating, Feels

  "Olympic skater Gracie Gold's secret to a tight, toned core". www.foxnews.com. February 14, 2014.

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• Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

  Tim Tebow

  Taken, Heartbeat, Ends

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• The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.

  Anais Nin

  Depressing, Tired, Men

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• My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.

  Cardale Jones

  Athletic Ability, Ability, Take Me

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• At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

  Josh Duhamel

  Athlete, Enough, I Realized

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• I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

  Uzo Aduba

  Art, School, Boston

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• I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Bishop (2010). “Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, p.63, Applewood Books

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• People think athleticism is just physical, but it's not. It's connected to the brain and how the brain can learn to execute and see a movement or not. Especially at high speed. Being athletic is not just jumping and running and being powerful. It's the nervous system that guides the body. The muscles don't decide anything. The brain decides and makes things happen.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

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• People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Beautiful, Smart, People

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• Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Office, Digging

  Billy Graham (1995). “Secret of happiness, The”

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• The Complete Idiots Guide to Eating Raw is ideal for anyone looking to seamlessly adopt eating habits that will benefit overall health and boost athletic performance.

  Brendan Brazier

  Benefits, Idiot, Eating

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• As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.

  Chael Sonnen

  Regret, Real, Athlete

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• when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.

  Dhani Jones

  Sports, Football, Book

  "Bengals LB Jones proves to be a true Renaissance man". Interview with Michael Fabiano, www.nfl.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Everyone feels like an underdog, at some point in their life. Even the best-looking people and the most athletic probably have a phase in their life - a year or two - where they're awkward or they have braces.

  Charlie Day

  Years, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I do have high expectations for Alex Riley. He seems athletic, articulate and intelligent. Only time will tell how far he goes, but Riley has bonafide potential. FCW did a nice job of preparing Alex for WWE. Alex's future success is largely up to Alex.

  Jim Ross

  Jobs, Nice, Intelligent

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• That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Team, People

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