Quotes About Athletics

Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.

Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

We all understand what we signed up for, but then again, you don't want this to be a game that puts people in wheelchairs at age 40.

At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

I started tennis around age 2.

That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.

In fact, the flashy, antiauthoritarian vaulters were suspiciously regarded, often with reason, by the coaches and their more loyal athletes as Thoreau-reading, dope-smoking, John Carlos–loving hippies.

Throughout the first 18 years of his career in the NBA, LeBron James scored over 35,000 points. Throughout the first 18 years of his career in the NBA, LeBron James scored

Citius, Altius, Fortius

My handicap? Woods and irons.

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

And you can take that to the hoop!" said Michael Jordan as a basketball net appeared on the keystone of the arch leading into the rotunda. Jordan took two giant strides as an arena full of cheering fans and a play-by-play announcer's excited voice roared out of the ceiling speakers.

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

Tyler turned down the candy because it would make him run slower.

Black people dominate sports in the United States - 20 percent of the population and 90 percent of the Final Four. We own this sh*t. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that sh*t too.

Wie man weiß, gibt es ja nichts auf der ganzen Welt, das langweiliger ist, als Sport zu machen, und wenn etwas noch langweiliger ist, dann natürlich Sportlern bei der Ausübung ihrer langweiligen Sportarten zuzusehen.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving you in sport.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

More kids are finding real sports too demanding.

Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

The coming back of these amphitheatres and stadiums into the modern city signifies not merely the revival of athletics, but of more brutalized forms of sport, in partial compensation for the emasculated, over-regimented existence of the metropolitan economy.