Athletic Quotes - Page 18

• I'm a really athletic person - I'm not that coordinated, but I'm really athletic, so I would play a superhero doing my own stunts in a heartbeat. But hopefully not taking swings at people. That's not a good idea for me.

  Selma Blair

  People, Superhero, Heartbeat

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• I'm naturally athletic. I've been involved in sports since I could walk. So, for me to be sedentary is just unacceptable. Not only is it great for your physical body, but it gives me more energy during the day if I've worked out. I feel better. I look better.

  Eva Longoria

  Sports, Feel Better, Giving

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• I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.

  Zachary Levi

  Mean, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we're completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Stars, Buddhism

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• I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

  Bill Walton

  Art, Parent, Literature

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• Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Training

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• Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

  John McEnroe

  Games, Track, Tennis

  "Why Does America Suck at Tennis?". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a sultry Texas night before a huge crowd, with everyone feeling perfectly safe, is exactly what terrorists hate. Which is why it is so important to resume such athletic rituals - which symbolize stability, confidence and order - as soon as is reasonably possible.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Hate

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• In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Anxiety, Mind, Levels

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Moving, Play, Fields

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

  John Travolta

  Sports, Art, Thinking

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• You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

  Simone Elkeles

  Skills, Car, Honey

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

  Richard Gere

  Views, Chinese, World

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• Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

  John Cheever

  Friendship, Exaltation, Nostalgia

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• My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

  Hale Irwin

  Mom, Dad, Athlete

  "Hale Irwin honored with Nicholson Award, talks golf and football". Interview, www.denverpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Practice

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• I try to be athletic.

  Lara Spencer

  Trying

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• My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

  Herschel Walker

  Pay The Price, Age, Matter

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• If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

  Isaiah Mustafa

  Sports, Waste, Ability

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

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• I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

  Joe Manganiello

  Thinking, Intellectual

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• Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.

  Dan Millman

  Success, Sports, Journey

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• Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness.

  Darren McFadden

  Training, Republic, Firsts

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• I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moving, Fall

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Hard Times (And Other Stories)”, p.595, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Students, Good Students

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