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Quotes About Athletics

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.
~ Jennifer Lane, Streamline
I spend a little time every day to play sports.
~ Vladimir Putin
I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
~ Jack Nicklaus
I cherished my time playing high school sports.
~ Peyton Manning
I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
~ Aaron Rodgers
There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.
~ Branch Rickey
I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.
~ Allyson Felix
moving!" A huge roar came from the crowd. The players
~ Mary Pope Osborne
I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don't get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw.
~ Maureen Johnson
Brain of a deer tick, but that's not something to hold against a running back.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Obviously other ones did exist such as basketball, but not in Lee County. Any sport that's not football around here is like vanilla. Why even eat that, if they've invented flavors.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I.Q. who can't play baseball or at least come in third in the local circle jerk is everybody's fifth wheel.
~ Stephen King
Most of us approach situations with the win-lose mentality. "Winning" means somebody else loses. We're scripted with a scarcity mentality by win-lose athletics, academic distribution curves, and forced ranking systems. We look at life through the glasses of win-lose, and if we fail to develop self-awareness, we spend our lives competing for "dimes" instead of cooperating for "dollars.
~ Stephen R. Covey
I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.
~ Daley Thompson
I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.
~ Sophia Bush
I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.
~ J. C. Watts
I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.
~ Maria Sharapova
I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
~ Wayne Rooney
I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.
~ Jason Statham
I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.
~ Wayne Gretzky
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
~ Carlos Slim
I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.
~ Dominique Dawes
I still love doing that. There's nothing like being able to go back and play volleyball again with a team cause, I can have my volleyball in my New York apartment but we can't do so much there.
~ Gigi Hadid