Quotes About Athletics

We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind

Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.

He's been breaking Olympic records like ninepins

A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop.

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

I'm so out of shape I take steroids just to watch sports.

It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go.

I love sports and I love sports movies.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

You pitch outside, you throw inside," he liked to say.

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

Track coach Bill Bowerman decided that his team needed better, lighter running shoes. So he went out to his workshop and poured rubber into the family waffle iron. That's how Nike's famous waffle sole was born.‡

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

Guy thought of the Greek word agon , wasn't it at once an athletic contest and a style of suffering, an agony?

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

If schools celebrated student scientists the same way they celebrate student athletes, more students would be encouraged to pursue the subject. Instead, science is considered nerdy because schools help students to paint it that way.

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

Washington State was a tough recruiting spot.

I was consuming the most food when I came to Wasps. I was eating six meals a day - 250-300g of protein, 300g of carbs, 250g of veg, six times every day. It was extensive, horrific. And tedious.

In a triathlon, it's all about cycling in the most efficient manner. You need to save your energy for the run at the end, so you want to ride really efficiently and not waste your energy. The only way to do that is to spend a really long time on the bike.

There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

When I watch Twenty20 cricket, there's a different satisfaction. That hundred you get in six hours is a very satisfying feeling. A real triumph of skill. I don't quite see that in the 20-over game - or the 100-ball game.