I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another. — Al Oerter Copy Share Image
The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Diet is highly individual. You have to see what your body wants and what is healthy for it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing… — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the… — Kirsty Coventry Copy Share Image
When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
I am doing what I do [athletics] because the fans love it and it's a part of me, it's my personality. I… — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
“Harold (about max): he looks kinda like a football couch Chester (sarcastically): Yay team rah rah. if he says anything athletic i'll… — James Howe Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here… — Fielding H. Yost Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. Laughter, pain, victory, defeat, friendship, fatigue, elation… they’re all… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until… — Roger Staubach Copy Share Image
Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down… — Lauren Fleshman Copy Share Image
Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I… — Bill Fagerbakke Copy Share Image
You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life. — Sheryl Swoopes Copy Share Image
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. — Esa Tikkanen Copy Share Image
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything. — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world. — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
I grew up knowing I would be good at athletics, and dreams of a Super Bowl were always within reach as long… — Matt Willig Copy Share Image
The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life. — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
I want to spend as much time as I can with my kids, but I know the opportunities in athletics don't often… — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And the line up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a… — David Coleman Copy Share Image
Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day. — Lauren Fleshman Copy Share Image
If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy. — Jai Courtney Copy Share Image
You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved… — Roger Staubach Copy Share Image
The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
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