Gym Class Quotes

• Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then suddenly your in Lord of the Flies for 40 minutes. Your hanging from a rope, you have hardly any clothes on, teachers are yelling at you, kids are throwing dodge balls at you and snapping towels - you're trying to survive. And then it's Science,Language, and History. Now that is a weird day.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

  Kate Voegele

  Athlete, Class, Sketchbooks

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• If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Inspirational, Teenager, Doe

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• Palming separates the men from the boys!

  Ed Marlo

  Boys, Men, Magic

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• I can't believe we got grades in gym class. I've never used anything I learned in there. "All right, I'm standing in front of a room full of strangers. Based on what I learned in gym class, I will throw a red ball at a fat guy."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Believe, Class

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• Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

  Joyce Maynard

  Sports, Children, Class

  Joyce Maynard (1988). “Domestic affairs: enduring the pleasures of motherhood and family life”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

  Tony Danza

  Country, Art, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Teacher, Jobs, School

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

  Patrick Stump

  Fall, Boys, Class

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• Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four.

  Travie McCoy

  Class, Musical, Three

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• Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Kids, Class, Parent

  Ayelet Waldman (2013). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They solve problems, such as how to get inner-city kids to spend $175 on shoes. They serve as a backdrop for some of our most memorable commercials. And they remain the one and only relevant application of math. Not only that, but we have sports to thank for most of the last century's advances in manliness. The system starts in school, where gym class separates the men from the boys. Then those men are taught to be winners, or at least, losers that hate themselves.

  Stephen Colbert

  Sports, Hate, Kids

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• I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.

  Lena Dunham

  Kids, Class, Athletic

  "The Conversation With Actor/Writer/Director/Producer (And Runner) Lena Dunham". Interview with Allison Glock, www.espn.com. September 21, 2015.

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• I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.

  John Barrowman

  School, Archery, Class

  "‘Arrow’: John Barrowman talks archery, ‘Doctor Who’ anniversary". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 12, 2012.

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