Athletic Quotes

#1. So which do you like better,State or Carolina? She was referring to the athletic rivalry between the Triangle area's two largest universities ... Definitely State. State all the way.

David Sedaris

#2. No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

Robert Zuppke

#3. When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.

Harmony Korine

#4. I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

Richard P. Feynman

#5. 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

#6. If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.

Shaquille O'Neal

#7. Utah is so wonderful. My greatest memories of Utah are of always being outdoors. It's a very athletic environment that I think gave me a lot of drive to be fit and live well.

Julianne Hough

#8. If I walk up to a can of Red Bull, I'm thinking about Formula One; I'm thinking about incredible athletic performances. And it helps me choose that can over something else to either side of it.

Nick Woodman

#9. Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.

Carolyn Jones

#10. As a little girl, I was athletic: 'Oh, mom, look at me. I can do cartwheels.' I was one of those annoying kids. I craved the spotlight. I had the feeling since I was little that the stage was my home.

Ashley Leggat

#11. Doing multiple character work is athletic in every way - vocally, physically, spiritually, and mentally. With a show like 'Passing Strange,' I usually lose about 12 pounds.

Colman Domingo

#12. I have often noticed that people who routinely wear sportswear are the least likely sort to participate in athletic activity.

Gail Honeyman

#13. 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

#14. If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

Isaiah Mustafa

#15. Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.

Chris Carter

#16. The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony ... a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.

Walter Zettl

#17. 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

#18. The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic or otherwise, can erode the part of athletic and artistic performance that celebrates natural talents and gifts.

Michael J. Sandel

#19. 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

#20. Again, I didn't blame her. I was a big man. A big handsome, athletic and sensitive man. Have

J.R. Rain

#21. Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.

Chris Matakas

#22. I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.

Lena Dunham

#23. The distant women bowed themselves; Nordic women who lived with their eyes looking at servants, as they were waiting; glaring in an intense white aspect, because they were athletic; because they had haircuts.

Jarrett McCall

#24. 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.

Peter Snell

#25. Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He's built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.

Don Yaeger

#26. If I am anorexic, I'd 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

#27. I think that's something to look forward to: The new Gracie Gold at the Olympics. In 2014, you'll see a lot of the warm Gracie, and not just the athletic Gracie.

Gracie Gold

#28. Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

Chris Van Allsburg

#29. I like athletic men, but not like Arnold Schwarzenegger, though he's gorgeous. A guy's got to be sexy, optimistic, like to have a good time.

Terry Farrell

#30. Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

Ann Coulter

#31. The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

Malcolm Gladwell

#32. I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.

Morgan Freeman

#33. Guys are bigger, stronger, just like in singles, serving bigger, returning better, and more athletic for sure. I think from my standpoint, just spending more time in the gym has enabled me to hang in there.

Daniel Nestor

#34. There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.

Jane Leavy

#35. I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.

Josh Hutcherson

#36. 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.

Augusten Burroughs

#37. Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.

Kiana Tom

#38. Every endeavor of importance in life, whether it is creative, athletic, interpersonal, or academic, brings with it a measure of discomfort,

Patrick Lencioni

#39. Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.

Kobe Bryant

#40. Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#41. If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.

John Ridley

#42. The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to ... take yourself out of the game.

Neil Peart

#43. I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.

Joan Smalls

#44. Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.

Stephen Colbert

#45. I usually have a hard time with the fit of off-the-rack suits, thanks to my athletic proportions, but somehow Burberry always fits me perfectly. There's no tailoring really required, which is rare for me.

Henrik Lundqvist

#46. I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.

Aaron Yoo

#47. I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.

Matt Bomer

#48. 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

#49. It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.

Frederick Lenz

#50. What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the most athletic people, but they're very powerful people, and they have tremendous stamina ... It takes a toll on their body, too.

Jon Favreau

#51. I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling.

Hill Harper

#52. That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me - I played Little League! It's one of those games in sports where even if you're not the greatest, you can still play.

Tom Guiry

#53. I believed back then that sperm, if not ejaculated, was reprocessed by healthy males into substances which made them athletic, merry, brave and creative.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#54. I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.

Izabella Scorupco

#55. 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

#56. I always meditate before every show. I say a prayer with my crew and my band to get in the mode, and I also stretch because it's a very athletic show. We've got to entertain; it's what we do.

Lindsey Stirling

#57. Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

Marvin Olasky

#58. People don't realize that I'm mobile, athletic and strong-armed.

Ben Roethlisberger

#59. I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.

Matt McGorry

#60. I always wanted and enjoyed sex, but I never put much importance on scoring or having an athletic sex life. I guess I define myself more by my career and my commitment to a relationship than by my ability to have a lot of chicks or achieve ten orgasms in an evening.

George Carlin

#61. Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

Tiger Woods

#62. I've never been innocent, but I don't think I'm a bad kid! I didn't get voted prom king. I was kind of the dancer, the performer, but I was always very athletic, too.

Jake T. Austin

#63. And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathmatical tragedy

Tony Gubba

#64. Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

Nancy Etcoff

#65. I'm a big-boned, athletic-looking woman, and I have to make the best of what I've got. I like to stay fit and healthy, but I could probably give myself a break sometimes.

Sarah Parish

#66. We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we're completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them.

Frederick Lenz

#67. When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body - it's more athletic.

Samantha Fox

#68. We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that helps me with the athleticism.

Arthur Jones

#69. Many girls at school were infatuated with his shallow athletic splendor and his golden handsome features that were biologically inherited and had nothing to do with the kind of person he might actually be.

Lynne Rae Perkins

#70. No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of dozens if not hundreds of athletic teams that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to college. That's all changed.

Russell Means

#71. I really learned to approach climbing not just with a pure athletic mentality, but also to appreciate all these beautiful places we get to go to.

Chris Sharma

#72. 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.

Alyson Stoner

#73. I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.

Katrina Law

#74. The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts.

Tyler Hoechlin

#75. 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

#76. I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

Jay Hernandez

#77. I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.

Zachary Levi

#78. It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.

Tatjana Patitz

#79. I'm super athletic and I love to work out, and obviously I need to workout for my industry as well, but I love learning something and developing that skill and feeling strong. Girls who can kick butt are hot.

Jessica Clark

#80. 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

#81. I'm not athletic.

Sofia Vergara

#82. I want people to perceive me as a guy who wants it. That I play the game with passion and desire. That I'm athletic, that I'm fast, and I'm relentless.

Jon Beason

#83. Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.

Connor Franta

#84. I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it.

Matt Holliday

#85. I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.

James Gray

#86. I'd compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.

Randy Pausch

#87. Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

Michael Johnson

#88. Eric Buckner is the most athletic big man I've ever coached.

Ron Hunter

#89. Bryan helped me up. "How can you be so good one minute then clumsy the next?"
I shrugged. "I've never been very athletic. Not unless you count fencing."
"You made fences?

John Corwin

#90. If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!

Eve Arden

#91. This explosion of athletic wear and rompers is very ironic when you think about how much more sedentary we've become. As we've become less active and higher-tech, we're wearing more and more workout clothes.

Tim Gunn

#92. By his own admission, he would rather run ten miles, leap a five-bar gate and climb a big hill than engage in any athletic activity.

Terry Pratchett

#93. I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Matt Long

#94. 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

#95. Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#96. The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport.

Natalie Cook

#97. The sweep of his arms was wide and athletic, more like a quarterback than a middling golfer who had dropped off the tour.

Nichole Bernier

#98. I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.

Laura Lang

#99. Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield ... Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

Jack LaLanne

#100. Came to her, not the athletic, graceful leopard of the ballroom at Hanford House but her very own wounded animal. Her husband. Her lover. Her best friend.

Laura Lee Guhrke