Quotes About Athletics

In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.

My life, since I was 12-years-old, has revolved around some sort of sport, mainly cycling, so when I'm unable to ride my bike I just don't know what to do with myself.

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

In its current form, modern running is a high risk contact sport.

They walked through the hallways of the stadium, Dowling taking him on a tour of every locker room in the building.

THE "GAMES" BEGIN

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

Students would be assessed on effort rather than skill. You didn't have to be a natural athlete to do well in gym.

Running is the most elemental sport there is. We are genetically programmed to do it.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Almost any domestic cat can run faster than Usain Bolt.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. TIGER WOODS

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

It was as if Chang had read right through me: He's lost a step. He can't get back fast enough. The helplessness was terrible. However, I still took pride in the fact that opponents—even the young bucks—were always very up when they played me. Maybe I was a notch in their belts; maybe they felt, This guy's a prick; I'll show him. I like to think it was because I was a great champion.

The shoes had come to define him as he proceeded to break every sprinting record at New Bedford High School and other high schools across the Commonwealth, earning himself the nickname Fast Eddie.

Nero's insistence on entering himself in singing competitions and athletic contests, where being awarded the supreme prize was a surprise only to him, was perceived as undignified. Emperors sponsored games; they were not supposed to become part of the spectacle.

Golf is hockey at the halt.

I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.

Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.