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Quotes About Athletics

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.
~ Mia Hamm
Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
~ George A. Sheehan
The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.
~ George Plimpton
I love this sport and I absolutely love the support you guys give me; and I will continue to do it until I can't.
~ Dan Henderson
UFC is not a competitor to the WWE because we are entertainment and UFC is competitive sport. It's very different.
~ Stephanie McMahon
I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
~ Barry Bonds
The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.
~ Chuck Liddell
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
~ Mickey Mantle
I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.
~ Jessica Biel
I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.
~ Janet Evans
Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
~ Sebastian Coe
I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.
~ Babe Didrikson Zaharias
I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.
~ Action Bronson
I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.
~ Andre Agassi
I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.
~ Johnny Bench
What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
~ Mark Spitz
More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.
~ Dan Gable
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.
~ Diana Nyad
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
~ Dave Barry
My workout was playing other sports and I always played tennis, football, basketball, threw a baseball - I was always doing something to keep me active. That's how I kept my body going.
~ Jack Nicklaus
All sports are games of inches.
~ Dick Ritger
The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
~ Mark Spitz
I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.
~ Amy Van Dyken
I follow K-1 closely and also train Ray Sefo. My heart is with K-1 and I love the sport of standup kickboxing.
~ Shawn Tompkins