Athletic Quotes

263 quotes by 247 authors

As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens… — Chael Sonnen
The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is… — Anais Nin
Everyone feels like an underdog, at some point in their life. Even the best-looking people and the most athletic probably have a phase in their… — Charlie Day
I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by… — Michael Franti
I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing… — Harry Connick, Jr.
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. — Mike Ditka
I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people. — Fred Durst
I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training. — Idris Elba
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral… — Herb Elliott
There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs… — Tim Ferriss
I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me… — Josh Hutcherson
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. — Jesse Jackson
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six… — LeBron James
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. — Douglas William Jerrold
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… — Derek Jeter
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. — Clark Kerr
A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. — Billie Jean King
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9… — Billie Jean King
I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen. — Akshay Kumar
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on… — Lewis H. Lapham

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