Athletics Quotes · Page 7

There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.

— Frederick Lenz

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

— Trishelle Cannatella

There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.

— Nathan Adrian

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

— Edwin Moses

There's lots of people my age (and younger) that have grown up in chaotic environments and I just happen to be one…

— Chris Kluwe

The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our…

— Frederick Lenz

I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker.

— Frederick Lenz

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

— Frederick Lenz

The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment…

— Frederick Lenz

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics.…

— Oscar Pistorius

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.

— Mary Kom

“It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory.”

— Andre Bramble

There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders…

— Tim Ferriss

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

You learn early in athletics that you'll have ups and downs.

— Ara Parseghian

In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must…

— Frederick Lenz

It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.

— David Coleman

The Olympics represent a global standard - for men, for women, for athletics.

— Rain Dove

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned…

— George A. Sheehan

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

Some might frown on American bravado but in athletics I have come to favour the American way; that bold self-belief is what…

— Justin Rose

When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you…

— Frederick Lenz

“We can choose to accept the fact that a challenge may be quite impossible, or we can choose to challenge the impossible.”

— Andre Bramble

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

— Frederick Lenz

Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.

— Molly Bloom