Physical Education Quotes

• Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Educational, Health

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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

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• Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

  Aristotle

  Education, School, Youth

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• Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1245, Library of America

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• Health is worth more than learning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1245, Library of America

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• It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.

  Sebastian Coe

  School, Exercise, People

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• Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Growth, Body, Needs

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  My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

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

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• The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Math, Humanity

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.159, Penguin

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• The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move on all fours, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim.

  Georges Hebert

  Running, Strong, Moving

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• We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Math, Discipline

  Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.166, Penguin UK

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• The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

  Avery Brundage

  Sports, Mean, Games

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• I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

  Alberto Juantorena

  School, Lessons, Genocide

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• The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health. We cannot ask for more from any system; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving, Desire, Relief

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• It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

  Shannon Miller

  School, Cutting, Program

  "Chat: Shannon Miller". Interview with Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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• A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

  Paul Dudley White

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Art, Children, School

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• I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Mean, Psychology

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Games, Moral

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• It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Boys, Should Have

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it all themselves. The parents can't come home from work and turn on the TV. That's not being a good parent.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Home, School, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Class, People

  Tupac Shakur, Afeni Shakur, Jacob Hoye, Karolyn Ali, Walter Einenkel (2003). “Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

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

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• I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

  Alice Waters

  Children, Real, School

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