Quotes About Athletics

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

This is my body, and I can make it do things. I can make it spin, flip, fly.

I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

My coach said I run like a girl. And I said if he ran a little faster he could too. - Mia Hamm

My coach said I run like a girl. And I said if he ran a little faster he could too.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

Sport is about acceleration, not top speed.

Eyes directly above the target line, slightly behind the ball, to ensure you swing along the target line.

A good, general ratio is one-third backswing, two-thirds follow-through, that is, a follow-through twice as long as your backswing. That

strongly recommend a slight inward knee flex, as if one were holding a volleyball between the knees, or there

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

Women cannot compete with men in physical prowess. And why in the name of all that is sane should we? Why not rather have our ambition go into sport for health, endurance, and the mere love of it?

No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.

I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.

I'd worked plenty hard in practice before, but never had I come off the ice and had every single muscle in my whole body ache with tiredness. All I wanted was a hot shower and about 30 tons of food. My stomach felt like it was eating its own lining. I sure hoped there were groceries at home.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

But one cannot rely solely on games and art to improve the quality of life. To achieve control over what happens in the mind, one can draw upon an almost infinite range of opportunities for enjoyment—for instance, through the use of physical and sensory skills ranging from athletics to music to Yoga (chapter 5), or through the development of symbolic skills such as poetry, philosophy, or mathematics

Agon includes games that have competition as their main feature, such as most sports and athletic events;

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.