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The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique. -- Vivienne Westwood
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. -- Jesse Owens
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. -- Major Taylor
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. -- Lewis H. Lapham
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication. -- Herb Elliott
Athletics is a luxury. -- Roger Bannister
Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life. -- Kiana Tom
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. -- Douglas William Jerrold
I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible. -- Matt Long
Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude. -- Bart Starr
Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition. -- Trishelle Cannatella
And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathmatical tragedy -- Tony Gubba
Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat. -- Tim Tebow
A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. -- Billie Jean King
Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice. -- Zig Ziglar
Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness. -- Darren McFadden
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. -- Chevy Chase
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion. -- William C. Bryant
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art. -- Avery Brundage
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. -- Clark Kerr
I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid. -- Uma Thurman
The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. -- Bill Toomey
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts. -- Roger Staubach
I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business. -- Cathy Freeman
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. -- Billie Jean King
It is my second visit to Korea since the International Junior Athletic Championships in 1992. Both then and now, I felt Korea is an interesting country and the people are very kind. -- Cathy Freeman
In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. -- Julianne Moore
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. -- Oliver Reed
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. -- Roger Bannister
I will never forget my time with Athletic Club and I'd like to thank the fans and staff for all their support and, above all, wish all my fantastic former team-mates all the best for the future. -- Ander Herrera
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. -- Brad Sherman
One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top. -- Bob Richards
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
Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful. -- Gracie Gold
If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport? -- Isaiah Mustafa
Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough. -- Anna Kournikova
Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived. -- Jordan Spieth
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. -- William C. Bryant
If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run. -- Dan Hill
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. -- Andrew Young
I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self. -- Alanis Morissette
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. -- Bonnie Langford
It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me. -- Chaz Bono
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
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. -- Lou Holtz
I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie. -- Drew Barrymore
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
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
Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul? -- Tina Brown
Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics. -- Dan Gable
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
I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it. -- Tanit Phoenix
I'm not super-athletic. -- Andrew Bogut
I've always been pretty athletic. -- Drew Roy
I try to be athletic. -- Lara Spencer
I don't swim! That's like athletic. -- Chloe Sevigny
Am I athletic? In my dreams. -- Hugh Bonneville
You must relate athletic experiences to life. -- Joe Paterno
We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. -- Mike Newlin
My kids are athletic, but they don't run. -- Jeff Fisher
I was a bookish kid, not really athletic. -- Michael De Luca
I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong. -- Devon Aoki
Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game! -- Lance Berkman
Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young. -- Nancy Etcoff
People don't realize that I'm mobile, athletic and strong-armed. -- Ben Roethlisberger
As far as natural ability, I was always athletic. -- Troy Brown
I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot. -- Jay Hernandez
I'm a tomboy myself and have always been incredibly athletic. -- Sarah Shahi
I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible. -- Matt Long
All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies. -- Rachel Zoe
I have a dance background. I have an athletic background. -- John Travolta
Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement. -- Paul Tsongas
If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter! -- Eve Arden
No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches. -- Robert Zuppke
I'm pretty athletic. I do things sometimes even I can't believe. -- Josh Howard
Eric Buckner is the most athletic big man I've ever coached. -- Ron Hunter
Being athletic has really become a big part of my career. -- Kelly Overton
I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy. -- Zachary Levi
I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time. -- Joe Manganiello
No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth. -- Amos Alonzo Stagg
I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things -- Shannon Miller
In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together. -- J. D. Salinger
I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick. -- Chamique Holdsclaw
Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey. -- Dan Millman
I was always cast doing something athletic. I can't do a cartwheel. -- Tori Spelling
I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity. -- Lindsey Vonn
I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends. -- Rosemary Mahoney
My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability. -- Cardale Jones
I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography. -- Katrina Law
My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball. -- Dennis Quaid
An athletic scholarship shouldn't be the best opportunity to receive a quality education. -- Jalen Rose
I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump -- Ronnie Corbett
I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling. -- Hill Harper
Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul. -- Bruce Lee
I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened. -- Adrianne Palicki
I've challenged (Donovan McNabb) to whatever athletic endeavor he wants, but he laughs it off -- Jimmie Johnson
Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition. -- Keeth Smart
The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic. -- Chris Van Allsburg
Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena. -- Chris Matakas
The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs. -- John Armstrong
You can't help but be in awe of the athletic abilities of the WWE Superstars. -- Dana Davis
I never saw an athletic girl that thought she was strong enough to do indoor work. -- Kin Hubbard
Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought. -- David Leadbetter
Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. -- Stephen Colbert
When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things. -- Saoirse Ronan
Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes. -- Godfrey
Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up. -- Tiger Woods
Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle. -- Joe Bastianich
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. -- Chris Cleave
In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess. -- Ellen Gilchrist
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic. -- Grace Jones
I was a bit of a tomboy when I started modeling. And I've always felt athletic and strong. -- Elaine Irwin
Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination. -- Marvin Olasky
I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it. -- Matt Holliday
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion. -- Barry Humphries
The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic. -- John Patrick Shanley
Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats. -- Brad Bird

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