Quotes About Athletics

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.