Athletic Quotes - Page 17

• Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.

  David Leadbetter

  Golf, Swings, Goal

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• After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be successful not only in gymnastics, but in my non-athletic life as well.

  Jonathan Horton

  Sports, Perseverance, Successful

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• Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

  Billie Jean King

  Leadership, Sports, Dedication

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• My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

  Jeff Fisher

  Running, Kids

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• I believe that coaches and athletes should realize that the athletic department field, court or diamond can be made an extension of the classroom, a place where you and your teammates are learning more than just how to prepare to win. The field, the court, and the diamond should be places where athletes are constantly learning about the game in which they participate, about their coaches and teammates, and perhaps most importantly, about themselves.

  Phillip Shriver

  Believe, Athlete, Winning

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• We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.

  Mike Newlin

  Athlete, Atrocities, Quintessence

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• It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

  Justin Gatlin

  Character, Way, Cheat

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• Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.

  Kobe Bryant

  Children, Wrestling, Greatness

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• I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.

  Channing Tatum

  Art, Athlete, Use

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.

  Sue Gunter

  Basketball, Caring, Practice

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• What we're going to do is use spring training as sort of a feeling-out process for Phil and Preston and our other outfielders. It gives us a lot of comfort to know that you've got a pure center fielder like Preston. But he's also so athletic, he can come in and play either corner and we'll feel very comfortable with it.

  Tim Purpura

  Spring, Play, Giving

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• Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment.

  Brock Yates

  School, Race, Giving

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• George Burns was more athletic than you think he was. And he was a very social man. He loved people, he enjoyed life. He worked at living. Old George was a social lion, he got around and did things. That's the key right there. It starts with your brain.

  Jack LaLanne

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "Jack LaLanne Dies: Who the Fitness Guru Really Was" by John Robbins, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2011.

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• The people of America are red, white, black, yellow, and all the shades in between. Their eyes are blue, black, and brown, and all the shades in between. Their hair is straight, curly, kinky, and most of it in between. They are tall and short, slim and fat, athletic and anaemic, and most of them in between. They are the different peoples of the world becoming more and more the "in between." They are a people creating a new bridge of mankind in between the past of narrow nationalistic chauvinism and the horizon of a new mankind--a people of the world. Their face is the face of the future.

  Saul Alinsky

  Eye, Past, Bridges

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.3, Vintage

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• Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Stars, Player, Games

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• I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano, violin, cornet or French horn. I had to be pulled away from any athletic participation. Now, at 63, I look back on my athletic feats - All-American, All-Pro Quaterback, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame - and I can honestly say I would trade these all if I had been smart enough to pursue my musical career. YOUNG PEOPLE - don't make the same mistake.

  Otto Graham

  Football, Smart, Mistake

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• I've challenged (Donovan McNabb) to whatever athletic endeavor he wants, but he laughs it off

  Jimmie Johnson

  Laughing, Want, Endeavor

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• I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.

  Steve Nash

  Player, Healthy, Knows

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• I never saw an athletic girl that thought she was strong enough to do indoor work.

  Kin Hubbard

  Girl, Strong, Sex

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• Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.

  Carolyn Jones

  Funny, Basketball, Coffee

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• My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like, `Epidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over.

  Britney Spears

  Mom, Giving, Cesarean

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

  Jalen Rose

  Opportunity, Quality, Being The Best

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• My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that's exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene - where everything was very gloomy - being athletic was not cool. I didn't publicize anything about my sport past, but I rolled in onstage with a background nobody had, and I became instantly recognized as the wildest performer in the punk-rock scene.

  Eugene Hutz

  Sports, Running, School

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• All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.

  Rachel Zoe

  Healthy, Body, Clients

  "Rachel Zoe: Size 0 to 8" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2008.

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• Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.

  Lorrie Moore

  Cat, Midwest, Faces

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.371, Faber & Faber

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