Top 282 Athletic Quotes

Just knowing how the body works and being athletic means it’s easier to stay athletic while working a different job.

Players at the top level are generally more athletic, stronger and more thoughtful. They have a quicker turn of pace but more than anything they’re clinical and decisive in their actions.

Obviously, I love the idea of athletic quarterbacks.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve always been athletic my entire life and loved sports.

I have athletic power that people can’t see, that sharpness, the big bang that hits you.

I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story… I didn’t want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.

Climbing is a cross between an athletic or sporting endeavor and the spiritual. I hope it remains that way.

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.

I’m pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

I’m probably in the bottom 25 percent of athletes in the big leagues, just on pure athletic capability. But I’ve taught myself, through a lot of hard work and study and science, how to be really good at one specific thing.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

I know where my weaknesses are. I am not as athletic as other point guards in the league. I can’t dunk over people. Maybe I’m not a good shooter, or whatever they say. But I know my strengths and that is helping my team to win by knowing exactly every moment what to do.

I’m a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

I remember when I was a kid I thought I could either be an athletic water drinker, like an Olympic-level water drinker, or I could invent Windex. Which I thought was really smart, because it already existed.

I am very athletic and like to play tennis, run, hike, and work out with my trainer. I also enjoy traveling, and given that it’s a part of my job, I get to do it a lot.

I think people don’t often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It’s athletic and it’s hard. It’s not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

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

I don’t want to be the athletic director at Texas, that’s not my expertise. I don’t want to take wins as a football coach and have someone shove me into that position because they’d think I’d like it, that I deserve it or a ‘pat on the back.’

I think I’ll never stop doing theater because it’s a more physical and athletic activity. You can’t pull any punches; there are no short cuts, and you have to be physically present and committed. I love the excitement and the response of being in front of a live audience.

I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.

Francis Ngannou is a fighter that has athletic ability. He’s not an athlete.

There’s no other heavyweight in the division like me, especially when it comes into the athletic department. I’m the most athletic heavyweight in the division.

Everybody has an ego, and they don’t like their athletic ability to be questioned.

I’ve always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

In our house, the name for all athletic shoes – any that weren’t dress or ‘church’ shoes – was ‘tennis shoes,’ or ‘tennies.’

I’m a pretty athletic big, pretty versatile for how big I am. And I can dribble down the court when I want to put my point guard pants on.

A sportswriter’s life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party… Digging beneath a coach’s lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills – better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion.

As far as my athletic ability, I can pretty much do it all. You can put me at linebacker and I’ll do a good job.

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what’s going on in the game.

I was athletic growing up and that was, of course, a big part of my household, but it wasn’t something that I was necessarily passionate about.

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.

The psychology of performance in athletic footwear and apparel is very real. Most athletes do not say, ‘Just give me what works the best – I don’t care what it looks like.’ They’re very concerned with what it looks like and how it makes them feel.

As my athletic career was coming to an end in 2007, I asked myself, do I want to work for somebody, or go out and make a difference?

Just because you have a good athletic background doesn’t make you necessarily a good wrestler. Because it takes a lot to be a good professional wrestler.

With the NBA’s dress code, I had to revamp my wardrobe a little bit. They call it ‘business casual.’ You have to wear dress jeans or dress slacks, with a collared shirt or sweater. And you can’t wear athletic shoes.

Making history is difficult, almost impossible, for those without my athletic ability and intelligence.

Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes – soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes – then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.

I could dunk a volleyball in high school. I didn’t play football because I knew they were going to put me at a fat-guy position, and I didn’t want to do that. I am athletic.

I’m athletic enough to do guard stuff, so if you were to mold me into having guard moves and footwork in a big’s body, that’s revolutionizing the game.

Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic field – requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.

I grew up playing sports, and being athletic was just something I have always hung on to.

A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.

I was never bullied as a kid, and I didn’t know that I was going to be bullied by adults because I park in handicapped. And I get it – I’m young and athletic – but I’m also missing legs.

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

Virtually every pair of athletic shoes comes with wafer-thin, virtually non-existent insoles that have very little heel or arch support. This is where Superfeet Black Premium Insoles come in. With ergonomic support for heels and arches, they feel molded to my feet in ways that continue to astound me.

I used to be very athletic when I was a young man.

I would never have left Athletic if it hadn’t been for a club like United. I left a different, unique club, with a special philosophy and incredible people.

Well, I mean, I like to be pretty athletic off the mound in terms of taking care of my job, which is covering first base, fielding bunts in certain situations, fielding slow rollers to the first base and having to communicate and direct traffic.

I think Matt Mitrione is a super tough guy, very athletic but I think that I’d probably get more pay-per-view buys if I fought Fedor.

I am athletic and I exercise a lot, so I might look like I dance, but I don’t.

After I lost some weight and got really healthy, I got more athletic and healthy every year, more confident every year.