I’m an athletic junkie – I play in all the celebrity all-star games, and I’ve become buddies with a bunch of athletes.
When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.
If I didn’t play baseball, I probably wouldn’t play a sport because i’m not really that athletic. Baseball was the one sport I could nerd my way to the top.
Independent of the strength implications, baseball, like most athletic events, is a game of feeling capable of handling the current challenge.
I am excited by and impressed with Anthony Joshua, but Anthony has a long way to go. At first, I thought Anthony was similar to a Frank Bruno figure, but after a few fights, I realised he’s nothing like Frank Bruno. He’s very athletic.
Mum always encouraged us to run, she was very athletic.
Everybody said you’re never going to win this whole Classic. You’re not strong enough. You’re big, you’re athletic, you’re fast – but you will never win this Arnold Classic. Those were the people who didn’t believe in me… I put in the work every single day – and here I am, three times champ!
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.
I like to think I’m one of the least athletic people in real life. I don’t do a whole lot when I’m left to my own devices except wield forks and knives.
Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
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.
Before I discovered CrossFit, I was really just doing regular bodybuilding, didn’t understand athletic training and movements. I didn’t even know how to squat, necessarily.
I decided I really wanted to go into something athletic. But I was 23, starting later in life, so wrestling was one of the few things available.
Everyone in my family enjoys sports and I was naturally athletic as a child. I have been cycling since I can remember, had previously represented by school in football and later my college at national level volleyball.
We were very athletic growing up. My dad basically trained us like boys when we were little, so being able to physically challenge myself and to be able to do crazy stunts and not use my stunt double was super exciting for me.
I’ve always had an athletic frame, both my brother and I inherited it from our dad. All three of us are tall, with broad shoulders, muscular legs and a fast metabolism.
I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.
A lot of guys do the pretty things. Dunking, tattoos, earrings, sagging jeans. That’s the league now. They have athletic ability, but they don’t know the game.
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.
I’ve always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for ‘True Blood’ or for ‘Magic Mike’ is because of the role that I’m playing.
I’ve always been athletic – did the 100 metres and 1500 m at school, cross-country races – and did well in them.
I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things.
I’m in limbo. The baseball people are like, ‘Oh, he’s basketball athletic.’ The basketball people are like, ‘Well, he plays baseball, so he’s probably not that athletic.’
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death – which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
I’m naturally athletic. I’ve been involved in sports since I could walk. So, for me to be sedentary is just unacceptable. Not only is it great for your physical body, but it gives me more energy during the day if I’ve worked out. I feel better. I look better.
With a big, strong athletic guy like Gronk who can go up and get the football, the key is staying in position.You have to play with leverage, know where your help is.
My own relationship to food was healthy. I was lean and athletic with a high metabolism. I could eat half a pizza with a side of breadsticks and wash it down with soda. I never dieted or denied myself food.
Since I was a young wrestling fan, I’ve been fascinated by super heavyweights and was always amazed at Yokozuna’s amazing grace and agility. How could a man who was so large still remain so athletic and retain perfect in-ring timing and spot-on psychology?
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.
I’ve always been athletic – I ran track in high school – and it kept my blood pressure in check over the years. Once I was diagnosed with hypertension, I stepped up my workouts.
You must relate athletic experiences to life.
I was nervous about doing ‘Scottsboro Boys’ because I’m not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.
Music and football are two industries where black people excel, because talent is undeniable. You can’t deny an amazing voice. You can’t deny amazing athletic prowess. Physically, it’s evident. But in other industries, circumstance is more of a thing.
I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.
I wasn’t athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.
There’s been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.
I think I have the ability to be athletic on both ends of the floor, so I just need to go out there and play with a lot of energy, a lot of enthusiasm.
I think the core of fans’ relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players’ athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.
My father first brought yoga into my life when I was 7. He began yoga, meditation, and diet to help with his back injuries incurred from being really athletic. Once he healed, he began to use yoga to take his body to a new level.
The bruisers and the bump-and-grind guys, use your athleticism on the floor, try to wear them out – run them through a lot of pick-and-rolls, run the floor, do a lot more athletic stuff just to try to wear them down.
When my accident happened, I had spent my entire life building my athletic ability, building my mental ability, making sure I could pass any tests I was ever given.
What makes the vault so spectacular is because it’s a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.
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.
I’ve always been athletic.
I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don’t want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don’t want to jeopardize their relationship with National Collegiate Athletic Association, which serves as a sort of free minor league and unpaid promotional department for the pros.
I’ve always been a pretty good ball-striker, I’ve relied on my ball-striking in my whole career, my athletic ability. But the short game and putting has kind of held me back in majors.
I’m an athletic actor. I’m known for my action; I’m a guy who does my own stunts on screen.
I had an athletic body my whole life.
Messi simply cannot be stopped by yourself. Ronaldo is easier because he is more about athletic prowess.
The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.
You should never be afraid of looking athletic or building too much muscle.
The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.
‘The Miracle Worker’ is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic.
Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it’s become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.
When I stay athletic with good posture and get the club away in a good position, I get through it better.
My ability to play off the pick-and-roll, open plays for other guys and use my athletic body to catch lobs, that’s what I do every night.
I wasn’t very athletic as a kid.
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.
