Athletic Quotes - page 2

I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody. (Danny Pino)
Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful. View quote
Gracie Gold
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication. View quote
Herb Elliott
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down. View quote
Hale Irwin
I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too. View quote
Jasmine Tookes
My kids are athletic, but they don't run. View quote
Jeff Fisher
Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football. View quote
John Boyle O'Reilly
Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires. View quote
Jackson Katz
I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars. View quote
Johnny Weissmuller
Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived. View quote
Jordan Spieth
Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life. (Kiana Tom)
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. View quote
Major Taylor
Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination. View quote
Marvin Olasky
I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best. View quote
Mary Decker
I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible. View quote
Matt Long
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us. View quote
Michael Johnson
I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping! View quote
Nancy Kerrigan
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it. View quote
Oliver Reed
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances. View quote
Peter Snell
But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was. View quote
Piper Perabo
Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa. (Tim Cahill)
Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
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. View quote
Uma Thurman
Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. The one had not been impaired by always having her own way nor the other by the violent athletic sports in which she had been compelled to take part, but she realized that neither was adequate as an equipment for earning her keep. View quote
Stella Gibbons
The role was very physically challenging and I am not athletic and have never wanted to be. I hate it in fact. I don't go to gyms and for me to have to stay in shape for the role became mind over matter. View quote
Lucy Lawless