Quotes About Athletics

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

Stadium ground is for merely sports playing and not for displaying acting skills by the batsman, bowler and fielder.

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

Sports are so physical that it's easy to overlook the mind's power, but I've seen it demonstrated again and again.

For me, it's a big deal to compete in the Olympics because it's so tough to qualify.

I believe that if I can qualify for the Olympics, I have the skills to compete at the highest level and do good for my country.

No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.

Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.

If I could have played in the qualifying rounds for the Beijing Olympics, the result could have changed. India would have booked the Olympics berth.

I think it's a great accomplishment. Qualifying for the Olympics once is already hard enough now I'm about to compete in my fourth, especially now that we are in the middle of the pandemic.

We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

I want to train hard, train well, and then help the team with my qualities.

If there's anything my kids have taught me, it's that my general belief in the good qualities of college athletics is alive and well.

For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.

Every play, I'm trying to get as many shots on the opposing team as I can, so when you get to the fourth quarter, they obviously don't want to be on the field anymore.

Oh, if I played in the All-Star game, I'm playing defense - hard for the first quarter. And I want to get a couple of dunks, too, like I do in a regular game.

I played street basketball for a while and wanted to play competitively, but I was so used to the street-style of game that I would have fouled out by the end of the first quarter.

I haven't seen a quarterback play a perfect game yet.

Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.

I haven't played quarterback since eighth or ninth grade. I didn't see it get much attention when I completed a pass then.

It's a headache, chasing a guy around. I'd rather play against a quarterback that sits still.

By running routes on air, with any quarterback, if I did routes on air with a D-II quarterback, I should catch most of the balls.