Athletic famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.
-- Akshay Kumar -
Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.
-- Alfred Shrubb -
No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.
-- Amos Alonzo Stagg -
I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
-- Andrew Young -
Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.
-- Anna Kournikova -
Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.
-- Anne Parillaud -
If I am anorexic, Id be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.
-- Anushka Sharma -
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.
-- Arthur Lydiard -
You have to transfer your success on the track to your education, because you don't want to waste what you did athletically once your athletic career is over.
-- Beau Walker -
The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.
-- Bill Toomey -
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
-- Bill Walton -
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
-- Billie Jean King -
Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!
-- Billy Graham -
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
-- Brad Sherman -
The Complete Idiots Guide to Eating Raw is ideal for anyone looking to seamlessly adopt eating habits that will benefit overall health and boost athletic performance.
-- Brendan Brazier -
Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.
-- Brian Kilmeade -
Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.
-- Bruce Lee -
My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.
-- Cardale Jones -
I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.
-- Channing Tatum -
All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.
-- Charles Garfield -
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
-- Chevy Chase -
He's coming up but he got bigger and stronger, that plus the athleticism. I'm going to have to show him that we're just as athletic in the middleweight division as [they are] in the welterweight division. I think he'll do good in the division but I'm glad I get to welcome him to middleweight.
-- Clint Hester -
Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.
-- Clive Barnes -
A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that
-- Dan Gable -
Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness.
-- Darren McFadden -
There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.
-- Donna Lopiano -
I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
-- Doug Stanhope -
I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.
-- Drew Barrymore -
If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!
-- Eve Arden -
Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.
-- Gracie Gold -
My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.
-- Herschel Walker -
I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling.
-- Hill Harper -
I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
-- Idris Elba -
If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?
-- Isaiah Mustafa -
I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.
-- Izabella Scorupco -
I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done
-- Jaime King -
An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.
-- Jalen Rose -
I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.
-- Jay Hernandez -
Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.
-- Jennifer Shahade -
And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight.
-- Jeremy Lin -
When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.
-- Jim Davidson -
I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby.
-- Jim Glennon -
I've challenged (Donovan McNabb) to whatever athletic endeavor he wants, but he laughs it off
-- Jimmie Johnson -
Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.
-- Joe Bastianich -
I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.
-- Joe Manganiello -
I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.
-- Joe Manganiello -
You must relate athletic experiences to life.
-- Joe Paterno -
The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.
-- John Armstrong -
Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.
-- John Cheever -
If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.
-- John Elway -
Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
-- Johnny Weir -
At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.
-- Josh Duhamel -
It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.
-- Justin Gatlin -
Ive never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. Im more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.
-- Katherine Webb -
Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.
-- Keeth Smart -
I naturally have an athletic build, thick legs yet a lean upper body. I filled out much later than all my classmates, and I thank God for it now. I had to learn to fix what I can and accept what I cannot fix...That's probably the hardest thing.
-- Keri Hilson -
Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.
-- Kiana Tom -
I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.
-- Kimberly Elise -
I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
-- Mara Wilson -
The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet.
-- Maria V. Snyder -
Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.
-- Mark Rippetoe -
Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.
-- Marvin Olasky -
As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.
-- Matt Kuchar -
I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.
-- Matt Long -
I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.
-- Michael De Luca -
We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.
-- Mike Newlin -
When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.
-- Misty Copeland -
The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport.
-- Natalie Cook -
My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.
-- Natalie Gulbis -
I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come and tell you that you're awesome the way you are.
-- Nick Vujicic -
All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.
-- Rachel Zoe -
You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.
-- Reynolds Price -
It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.
-- Richard Gere -
When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.
-- Saoirse Ronan -
I'm a tomboy myself and have always been incredibly athletic.
-- Sarah Shahi -
I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.
-- Scott Brooks -
I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.
-- Scott MacDonald -
I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things
-- Shannon Miller -
Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.
-- Stanley Fish -
Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get to do it twice. It helps if you've done whatever the old saw is, 10,000 hours of it. Because I've done 10,000 hours of comedy, I have this database in my mind of what works and what doesn't work.
-- Stephen Colbert -
Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.
-- Stephen Colbert -
I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.
-- Steve Nash -
I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.
-- Susan Ford -
Something I still work on today is ankle flexion—ankle pressure in your boots. There is no way to turn or have your skis carve unless you’re going down the hill leaning forward, and that puts you in a good athletic position to do whatever you want to do on your skis—make quick turns, make long turns, or absorb bumps.
-- Ted Ligety -
Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.
-- Tiger Woods -
Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.
-- Tim Tebow -
I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'
-- Tom Brady -
And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathmatical tragedy
-- Tony Gubba -
I was always cast doing something athletic. I can't do a cartwheel.
-- Tori Spelling -
Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.
-- Trishelle Cannatella -
I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
-- Uma Thurman -
It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
-- Vera Wang -
In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.
-- Victoria Wood
