Athletic Quotes

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique. (Vivienne Westwood)
Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life. View quote
Steffi Graf
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. View quote
Bill Toomey
I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up. View quote
Izabella Scorupco
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living. View quote
Stella Gibbons
Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special. View quote
Wilt Chamberlain
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. View quote
Chevy Chase
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something. View quote
Michael Shannon
Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children. (Rick Riordan)
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. View quote
Arthur Lydiard
In grade school I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. View quote
Julianne Moore
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. View quote
Chris Cleave
I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable. View quote
Brad Garrett
A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. View quote
Billie Jean King
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. View quote
Billie Jean King
I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related. View quote
Alyson Stoner
Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough. View quote
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. View quote
Anne Parillaud
In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that. (Aimee Teegarden)
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. View quote
Brad Sherman
Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude. View quote
Bart Starr
Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. Hes built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it. View quote
Don Yaeger
Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics. View quote
Dan Gable