Best Athletics Quotes
176 Athletics quotes by 95 unique authors
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Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs of…
— Frank H. T. Rhodes
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When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have…
— John Wooden
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I think that there’s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something.…
— Unknown Author
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Although they only give gold medals in the field of athletics, I encourage everyone to look into themselves and find their own personal dream, whatever…
— Unknown Author
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I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches…
— Denton Cooley
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You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.
— Sheryl Swoopes
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There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.
— Nathan Adrian
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Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to…
— Hyrum W. Smith
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Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.
— Sally Pearson
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There is no better leader in collegiate athletics than Tom Brady.
— Unknown Author
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In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in…
— Clair Bee
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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and…
— Barry S. Strauss
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Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out…
— Andrew Sullivan
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In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and integrity. People who…
— Ilchi Lee
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Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics…
— Zola Budd
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I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
— Edwin Moses
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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.
— Plato
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In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
— William Standish Knowles
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You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.
— Roger Staubach
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I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.
— Gerald McRaney
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Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of…
— Fielding H. Yost
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Everybody deserves a shot at playing sports. It shouldn't matter in the least if that person is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Building community through…
— Mardy Fish
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I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
— Alberto Juantorena
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I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing…
— Tom Baker
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It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt…
— Bobby Knight
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