Quotes about Athletics

Athletics is a luxury. Votes: 5

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art. Votes: 4

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. Votes: 4

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts. Votes: 4

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top. Votes: 4

Athletics have become professionalized. Votes: 3

Athletics is in my blood. Votes: 3

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage. Votes: 3

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school. Votes: 3

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport. Votes: 3

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school. Votes: 3

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you. Votes: 3

Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view. Votes: 3

Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas. Votes: 3

I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker. Votes: 3

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics. Votes: 3

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked. Votes: 3

In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind. Votes: 3

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one. Votes: 3

Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated. Votes: 3

Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action. Votes: 3

Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level. Votes: 3

Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important. Votes: 3

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform. Votes: 3

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting. Votes: 3

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting. Votes: 3

It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi. Votes: 3

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet. Votes: 3

Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified. Votes: 3

The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being. Votes: 3

Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'. Votes: 3

Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement. Votes: 3

The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses. Votes: 3

When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system. Votes: 3

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play. Votes: 3

One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit. Votes: 3

Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts. Votes: 3

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line. Votes: 3

While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations. Votes: 3

But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone before. All I've done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. Athletics aren't just running, it's a way of life Votes: 3

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports. Votes: 1

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score. Votes: 1

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing. Votes: 1

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy. Votes: 1

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. Votes: 1

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature. Votes: 1

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young. Votes: 1

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that. Votes: 1

I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics. Votes: 1

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically. Votes: 1

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming. Votes: 1

The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front. Votes: 1

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception. Votes: 1

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town. Votes: 1

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids. Votes: 1

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. Votes: 1

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. Votes: 1

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town. Votes: 1

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends. Votes: 1

I can't compare family to athletics. Votes: 0

There is no better leader in collegiate athletics than Tom Brady. Votes: 0

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition. Votes: 0

If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile. Votes: 0

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics. Votes: 0

There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics. Votes: 0

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind. Votes: 0

I've always been really comfortable around athletics, I've just never been comfortable playing anything. Votes: 0

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.' Votes: 0

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics. Votes: 0

We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it. Votes: 0

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition. Votes: 0

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life. Votes: 0

Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception. Votes: 0

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research. Votes: 0

If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important. Votes: 0

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept. Votes: 0

We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world. Votes: 0

When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first. Votes: 0

We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world. Votes: 0

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m. Votes: 0

If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich. Votes: 0

I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition. Votes: 0

You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do. Votes: 0

I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times. Votes: 0

It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything. Votes: 0

I want to stay involved in athletics; I want to encourage kids to take part and try to grow the sport. Votes: 0

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. Votes: 0

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. Votes: 0

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics. Votes: 0

Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon. Votes: 0

I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally. Votes: 0

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance. Votes: 0

I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill. Votes: 0

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics. Votes: 0

If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation. Votes: 0

You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end. Votes: 0

I grew up knowing I would be good at athletics, and dreams of a Super Bowl were always within reach as long as I progressed. Votes: 0

Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics. Votes: 0

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud. Votes: 0

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for. Votes: 0

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking. Votes: 0

If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished. Votes: 0

The whole sexiness thing-I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. But it has helped the sport grow. I think it changes how people see women's athletics. Votes: 0

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school. Votes: 0

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998. Votes: 0

Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.) Votes: 0

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands. Votes: 0

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get. Votes: 0

In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics. Votes: 0

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body. Votes: 0

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system. Votes: 0

Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation. Votes: 0

All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being. Votes: 0

All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being. Votes: 0

Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential. Votes: 0

Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything. Votes: 0

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading. Votes: 0

Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top. Votes: 0

If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above. Votes: 0

I love coaching. I would probably be coaching. I would work in athletes and work with the youth. I would maybe do personal development and athletics. I would coach in high school or college. Votes: 0

Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place. Votes: 0

It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment. Votes: 0

Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place. Votes: 0

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day. Votes: 0

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really. Votes: 0

Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics. Votes: 0

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons. Votes: 0

In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play. Votes: 0