I’m not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it’s our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.
I like to think I defied the odds my entire life, definitely my entire athletic career.
When you look at older teams in the finals, Miami and San Antonio, they’re not really the most explosive or athletic team but they’re always in the right position defensively.
I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.
Being on the court you can really negate your athletic ability by just being in the right position.
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.
I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.
I came from a poor Pennsylvania coal mining family and the only way I was going to get an education was through an athletic scholarship.
I like to wear bodysuits and things that make me feel really active and athletic and also really sensual.
I’m 6’3″ and 185 pounds on a good day, so I probably relate more to the casual fan who watches the game and is not super athletic, not this crazy monster of physical stature.
I don’t really know anything about my dad. I don’t really know too much about his background. He’s Jamaican and Jamaicans are usually more athletic. You’ve seen Usain Bolt.
I’m not a small guy. I can get up to 205 pounds and be athletic and be in shape.
The height of my athletic achievement was in 8th grade when I was the point guard for my Jewish day school basketball team. We played in a public school league and, amazingly, went undefeated. I say ‘amazingly’ because our power forward was 5 ft. 6 in.
What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.
A combine is a series of athletic tasks that help a coaching staff measure an athlete’s ability to be competitive in a sport. A bobsled combine requires a sprint, broad jump, two-handed shot toss, and a back squat and power clean.
Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
It’s not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it’s not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.
I really liked sports and athletic stuff, but I was a total nerd.
I had no money, no grades, no athletic ability. Nothing but hope.
When you play against Athletic, you know there is no easy ball.
I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
Portraying Alex Summers, I want to look as athletic as his character is in the comics.
I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn’t particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
I was always being athletic, climbing trees and running after boys, just being trouble. It was always in me.
I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
My father’s NFL dreams never really felt like motivation to me, but it was something to aspire to. He was such a great athlete, the least I could do is try and use my athletic talent to represent my country in a different way. He represented as a Marine. Maybe I could do something to represent as an athlete.
I’m athletic but in a dancer way.
I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the nation at the NCAAs.
I go to this gym in Hollywood: it’s a Cross Fit gym. It’s basically just a really high intensity, sort of, athletic movements. I’m sure Cross Fit is going to be mad at me for not giving their definition of what Cross Fit is.
I wish that a White House celebration of your athletic achievements could be free from politics.
I’ve had several unavoidable problems because of my athletic career.
Just like the athlete who has mapped out a plan to become one of the best athletes in the world by putting together a training program and executing it, he too should map out a financial plan from the beginning of his athletic career throughout every stage of his career.
I played club football with a traveling team since I was 8 years old. I also played basketball and baseball, so I was competing on the athletic fields the entire year.
I am not athletic.
As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth from an allergy to athletic activity.
Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.
I have power, but focus on the overall athletic event – the technique you have to execute before acquiring the knockout. You have to play the game before you hit a home run, right?
America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.
I was a center. I was quite athletic, I could shoot okay and I trained a lot. I played with the national team in Iceland.
I’m very athletic and I’ve ridden horses my whole life.
My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
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.
As an attorney, judge, state representative, two-term Lieutenant Governor, and an athlete inducted into the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame as a member of the LSU Boxing Team, Bobby Freeman’s passion for serving the people of Louisiana and his talent were on display in everything he did throughout his life.
My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you’re willing to work pay the price. It doesn’t matter what your age.
If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?
I’ve never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn’t win an Olympic medal. It’s definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.
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!’
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
The reality is, I’m not 24 or 34 anymore. Things are going to be different when I prepare for and when I compete in an athletic endeavor.
I understand when people think dressage is boring. But while your standard horse is like driving a Fiesta, our horses are like driving Formula One cars. I can’t breathe without the horse reacting. You are training another being to become really responsive and athletic and powerful.
I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.
I was actually fairly athletic and coordinated, but I never played any organized sports.
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.
In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.
I try to space the floor and use my athletic ability to get to the rim… I try to get the best of both worlds.
I was happy to play for Athletic Bilbao, another club that is dear to me, and for Manchester United, the biggest club in the United Kingdom, where I felt loved.
Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.
I like to think I’m pretty close in comparison to Aaron Rodgers. He’s very athletic and gets the ball out quickly. He’s very knowledgeable of the game, controls the offense totally, and that’s something I try to do. Just know the offense inside and out.
