Athletics Quotes - Page 11

• There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.

  Nathan Adrian

  Sports, Asian, Pacific

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• You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Talking, Being Positive

  "Sheryl Swoopes' finishing move". Interview with Adena Andrews, www.espn.com. June 20, 2011.

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• I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.

  Denton Cooley

  Basketball, Sports, Thinking

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

  Esa Tikkanen

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Sports, Athletic, Competition

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• If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.

  Phil Collen

  Comfort, Band, Want

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.

  Shawn Johnson

  Skills, Focus, Needs

  "Shawn Johnson gets more nervous watching Olympic Trials than she did competing". Interview with Maggie Hendricks, ftw.usatoday.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I feel like if you compare the commentary, what's covered with female athletics, as with men. On any given day, if a guy competes, you're going to critique his technique and his performance, training. With a girl, you don't do the same thing. You might mention a little bit of that, but you're also going to get what she was wearing, how she performed, what she looked like. I feel like it should be the same.

  Shawn Johnson

  Girl, Men, Guy

  "Shawn Johnson gets more nervous watching Olympic Trials than she did competing". Interview with Maggie Hendricks, ftw.usatoday.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I want to stay involved in athletics; I want to encourage kids to take part and try to grow the sport.

  Usain Bolt

  Sports, Kids, Trying

  "Usain Bolt Reveals His Fantasy Relay Team & When He’s Hanging up His Spikes". Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. August 15, 2016.

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• Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Records, Definitions, Pursuit

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• There are kinds of unity other than those of the explicit and systematic unity that Poole is attacking. There are kinds of movement - in music or athletics, for example - that present themselves as having a certain unity about them. In some sphere we might talk about 'style'.

  George Pattison

  Unity, Style, Example

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I have a lot of friends who have hula-hoops, it's like a mixture of dance and athletics and exercise, meditation. It's a healthy hobby I think. I can do a few tricks, I can hoop from my neck and shoulders, and I can do a few moves, a few tricks! I can walk through the hoop whilst it's spinning. I feel like there's definitely an interest in promoting the hula-hoop as an important pastime!

  Sufjan Stevens

  Moving, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Exception

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Sports, Levels, Highest

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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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• Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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