Athletic Quotes - Page 19

• When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.

  Misty Copeland

  People, Different, Looks

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• All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.

  Charles Garfield

  Basketball, Accomplishment, Feelings

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• I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

  Peter M. Brant

  Real, Character, Thinking

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• Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Skills, Achievement

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• When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.

  C. Vivian Stringer

  Country, Iowa, Decision

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• Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

  Tim Cahill

  Moving, Swimming, Whales

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• I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

  Amanda Schull

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Amanda Schull: Fate intervened with ‘Center Stage’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. August 9, 2010.

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• When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young
  girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.

  Jennie Finch

  Beautiful, Girl, Softball

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• I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.

  Joe Manganiello

  Blood, Guy, Magic

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• The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.

  John Armstrong

  Heaven, Soul, Fool

  John Armstrong, John Aikin, William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem, in Four Books”, p.80

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