Athletics Quote by Jill Lepore

“You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.” quote by Jill Lepore — Download Open image

“You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Athletics Boys Hard Hard work Ifs Strong Train Way Work hard

More by Jill Lepore

Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about…

Jill Lepore

Image

History is only written from what remains.

Jill Lepore

Image

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

Jill Lepore

Image

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

Jill Lepore

Image

The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.

Jill Lepore

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

Jill Lepore

Image

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't…

Jill Lepore

Image

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.…

Jill Lepore

Image

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of…

Jill Lepore

Image

'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.

Jill Lepore

Image

“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up with the history of reading and writing, which is one of the reasons the study of American history is inseparable from the study of American literature. In the early United States, literacy rates rose and the…

Jill Lepore

One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but…

Jill Lepore

Image

Explore all 105 Jill Lepore quotes

More Athletics quotes

We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world.

Alberto Juantorena

Image

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 excessive commercialization in every part of the university.' His somber assessment of the current state of athletics, scientific research, and distance education, and his call for review and restraint, should engage the attention of every…

Frank H. T. Rhodes

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

Pat Riley

Image

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

Ron Pickering

Image

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind.…

Frederick Lenz

Image

While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects…

Gail Devers

Image

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

George A. Sheehan

Image

And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand

David Coleman

Image

The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just…

Frederick Lenz

Image

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds…

Dan Pfeiffer