Athletics Quotes - Page 7

• We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Art, Fighting

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• Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Art, Strong, Educational

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• In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

  Kirsty Coventry

  Swimming, Race, Opposites

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• Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Pageantry, Emotion, Wonderful

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• When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

  Daley Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• There's lots of people my age (and younger) that have grown up in chaotic environments and I just happen to be one of the first ones to make it to pro sports. It's more a societal thing than an athletics thing.

  Chris Kluwe

  Sports, People, Age

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• Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor.

  Bill Toomey

  Inspirational, Funny, Doctors

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• During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

  Daley Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Gold

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• There is no path I follow. I feel as if I'm just drifting along, because although I can progress physically, through my training, mentally and spiritually I don't know what the hell I'm doing. It's like that car sticker: 'Don't follow me, I'm lost'.

  Steve Ovett

  Inspirational, Funny, Car

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• If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

  Bear Bryant

  Self, Discipline, Worthwhile

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• Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

  George Vecsey

  Softball, Baseball, Player

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• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics.

  Karen DeCrow

  Girl, School

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• I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

  Dominique Dawes

  Believe, Athlete, Young

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• After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I'm doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.

  Jeremy Campbell

  Inspirational, Funny, Javelin

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• A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

  Chris Crutcher

  Sports, Integrity, People

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• I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm a product of Wonder Woman comic books

  Nina Kuscsik

  Inspirational, Funny, Baby

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• I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.

  Geoff Stults

  Thinking, Humbling Experiences, Prepared

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• Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stress, People, Drug

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• I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of my own mind. I also find that extreme athletics helps to clarify your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Snowboarding, Mind, Diving

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• I like extreme athletics, extreme meditation and extremely beautiful women. Perhaps I'm an extreme person, or it's simply my Karma. But I must tell you, as if you hadn't read about me in a newspaper or seen me on a magazine format television show, there are extreme risks involved with all three.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Karma, Meditation

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• Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sunset, Buddhism, Practice

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• You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will bring it out of you. You're always stripping yourself down to the bones of your personality. And sometimes you just get a glimpse of the kind of talent you've been given. Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that.

  Steve Ovett

  Running, Cutting, Frustration

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• College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.

  Susan Orlean

  Kids, College, People

  "Football U." by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

  Susan Orlean

  Sports, Team, Believe

  "Football U." by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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• In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

  Daley Thompson

  Motivation, Heart, Thinking

  Interview With Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2008.

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