Activity Quote by Frank Shorter

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in…

— Frank Shorter

I really don't know how athletes manage to do it, having kids while they're still competing and being able to stay at the top…

— Chris Hoy

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many…

— Bill James

The sports of children satisfy the child.

— Oliver Goldsmith

For many children, the sport they do is because that is the one that was most available to them.

— Princess Anne

It's important for parents to put kids in positions where they can succeed and to teach competition because competition exists not only in sports.

— Ray Allen

I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at…

— Benjamin Spock

For many young people growing up in minority communities, there is a sense that their lives are disposable. As athletes, we have a platform…

— Jason Collins

Athletics is the mother of all sport and every child must try out it once during his school days.

— Milkha Singh

It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.

— Lindsey Vonn

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they…

— Ivan Lendl

Being an Olympic runner and now a mommy, it is so important to me to help my children learn early on how to be…

— Carrie Tollefson