Athletics Quotes - Page 6

• My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

  Teddy Sears

  Sports, Fun, Ambition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'

  Catfish Hunter

  Home, Yankees, Two

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• Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki

  Nigel Starmer-Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Gold

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• Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Vanguard

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• It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Battle

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• I didn't have the passion for athletics in that way, that there were other parts of me that felt under-served and that needed to be nurtured and needed my energy.

  Mahershala Ali

  Passion, Energy, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.

  Vance Gilbert

  Ribs, Gestures, Definitions

  Source: www.minor7th.com

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• I love coaching. I would probably be coaching. I would work in athletes and work with the youth. I would maybe do personal development and athletics. I would coach in high school or college.

  Donovin Darius

  Athlete, School, College

  Source: prointerviews.org

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• Being healthy isn't about inches, pounds, or how kids look - it's about how they feel and making sure they feel good about themselves. So rather than focusing on appearance, it's important to emphasize to kids that when we eat healthy food and stay active, we feel better, and we can perform better in everything we do, from athletics to academics.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Feel Better, Feel Good

  "Michelle Obama talks nutrition and 'wakeup call' moment in her family's past". Interview with Morgan Whitaker, www.aol.com. September 10, 2015.

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• I am doing what I do [athletics] because the fans love it and it's a part of me, it's my personality. I think people come to see you run fast, but they also come to see a show, a performance. They want to see a personality, and that's what I give them.

  Usain Bolt

  Running, Thinking, People

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• Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'.

  Jenny Meadows

  Sports, Athlete, Track

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• He's 31 this year: last year he was 30.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Soccer

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• The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Games

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• That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

  Jesse Jackson

  Art, School, Police

  Source: www.colorlines.com

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• This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Stars, Memories

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

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• The whole sexiness thing-I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. But it has helped the sport grow. I think it changes how people see women's athletics.

  Jennie Finch

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• And the mile once again becomes the focal point where it's always been

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Miles

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• The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Games

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• The Kenyans haven't done much in the last two games, in fact they haven't competed since 1972

  Brendan Foster

  Inspirational, Funny, Games

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• She hasn't run faster than herself before

  Zola Budd

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• The American's head are on their chins a little bit at the moment

  Ron Pickering

  Inspirational, Funny, Littles

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