Achievement Quote by Frederick Lenz

All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego…

— Garth Stein

“Athletics lasts for such a short period of time. It ends for people. But while it lasts, it creates this make-believe world where normal…

— H.G. Bissinger

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally…

— George A. Sheehan

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose…

— Lewis H. Lapham

All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body…

— Frederick Lenz

I think sports is part of the healing process for society.

— Barry Trotz

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.

— John Skipper

People think, sports delivers a message. It's not just about winning and losing, although that's important. It's about other things, too. It demonstrates how…

— Gabe Polsky

When athletes are obsessed with whatever identity niche they've backed themselves into at the expense of showcasing America, everybody suffers. They forget to focus…

— Miranda Devine

The athletes realize what they have to do on the field sometimes and don't always think about the entertainment value of what they're doing.

— Jozy Altidore

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

— Percy Cerutty

In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to…

— Frederick Lenz