Athletics Quotes - Page 9

• Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.

  Derek Jeter

  Running, Opportunity, People

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• The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination and desire. Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Success, Sports, Determination

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• Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

  Neil Postman

  People, Culture, News

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.18, Penguin

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• Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

  "Do Blacks Dominate Sports Because of Genetics?". "Both Sides with Jesse Jackson", www.cnn.com. July 23, 2000.

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• Athletics have become professionalized.

  Socrates

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• Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Football, Integrity

  "NFL All-Pro Ray Lewis". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 11, 2011.

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• We've separated from mogul and aerial skiing and we've built our own sport and our own tricks. And now we're going back to the roots. But the Olympics is a world stage for athletics and it's going to be pretty sweet to represent our sport and represent our culture and show everyone what we're all about.

  Nick Goepper

  Sports, Sweet, Roots

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 13, 2014.

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• Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

  Roger Staubach

  Cutting, Temporary, Short Cuts

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• You always gotta continue to hunger. If you're gonna continue in any kind of industry whether music or the film industry or athletics, that drive to become better is what will eventually make you into that superstar everybody else will see.

  Ryan Guzman

  Superstar, Kind, Film

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.

  Karen Armstrong

  Skills, Years, Law

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Girl

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• We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Bloopers

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• The late start is due to the time.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Late

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• A truly international field, no Britons involved.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Fields

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• Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

  Herschel Walker

  Football, Business, Thinking

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• Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

  Clare Balding

  Swimming, Cycling, Games

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• Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We also tend to quit without warning. Refuse to go to school,drop out,quit jobs,leave lovers,move,lose all our money. We get sick of being impressive. Rather,we tire of having to seem impressive. As a rule,most of us never really believed we were any good in the first place.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Jobs, Moving, School

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• We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

  Martha Graham

  Life, Dance, Education

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

  Gerald McRaney

  Thinking, Engagement, Levels

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• All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

  Garth Stein

  Athlete, Games, Interesting

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• Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

  Zola Budd

  Running, Growing Up, Shoes

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• In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

  William Standish Knowles

  Team, Class, Made

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• You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.

  Roger Staubach

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Fighting

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• Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.

  Bruce Lee

  Skills, Training, Development

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.36, Canongate Books

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