Quotes About Athletic Ability

#1. When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.

Michael Josephson

#2. I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else.

Tim Tebow

#3. Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

Tim Tebow

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don't make an aggressive move. You'd be surprised how much better your swing will get if you let your natural athletic ability shine. So go after it.

Keegan Bradley

#7. I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

Doug Stanhope

#8. I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

Geena Davis

#9. In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players.

Justin Cole

#10. 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

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

Isaiah Mustafa

#12. Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.

Charles Duhigg

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

Matt Holliday

#14. I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.

Justin Cole

#15. When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

Dhani Jones

#16. My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.

Cardale Jones

#17. I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.

Tim Tebow

#18. I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

Dakota Fanning

#19. Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

Isaac Asimov

#20. I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don't last forever.

Arthur Jones

#21. [On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

Barbara Bergmann

#22. I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

LeBron James

#23. As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

Troy Brown

#24. I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

Parker Stevenson

#25. You can't tell me my feelings are overwrought or absurd. You don't know. They are my feelings.

Leila Sales

#26. Harlots shall be made pure by their own tears. But you publicans shall be held down by the chains of your own judgement.

Khalil Gibran

#27. I was a stunt man for 35 years.

Richard Farnsworth

#28. Life isn't meant to be believable. It's meant to be magical. Haven't you heard? Truth is stranger than fiction.

Rebecca Serle

#29. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.

Frederick Douglass

#30. Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!

Tarek Saab

#31. 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

#32. It's not the norm, I guess, to see someone as aggressive as me being more or less very athletic. You see me running, having a big, violent hit, it's going to look bad, but that's the natural ability I've been given. Why would I let it run to the wayside and not use it?

Ndamukong Suh

#33. I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.

Steven Soderbergh

#34. Freedom ... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!

Joseph P. Sekula

#35. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

#36. I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not.

Tim Rice

#37. If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

Mary Badham

#38. The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.

Thomas Paine

#39. I suspect everybody has a degree of psychic ability, just as a everybody has a degree of athletic or artistic ability. Some people have special gifts; other people have a particular interest that leads them to develop their abilities. But the phenomenon itself is ordinary and widespread.

Michael Crichton

#40. The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person.

L. Ron Hubbard

#41. You can't help but be in awe of the athletic abilities of the WWE Superstars.

Dana Davis