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Athletics is a luxury. -- Roger Bannister
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
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
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
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
Athletics have become professionalized. -- Socrates
Athletics is in my blood. -- Haile Gebrselassie
The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage. -- Plato
I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school. -- Edwin Moses
Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport. -- Lindsey Vonn
I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school. -- Alberto Juantorena
Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you. -- Frederick Lenz
Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view. -- Chris Gabrieli
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas. -- Chris Crutcher
I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker. -- Frederick Lenz
It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics. -- Frederick Lenz
This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked. -- David Coleman
In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind. -- Frederick Lenz
On the Â£20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one. -- Michael Johnson
Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated. -- Bill Fagerbakke
Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action. -- Frederick Lenz
Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level. -- Julie Foudy
Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important. -- Derek Jeter
If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting. -- Buzz Bissinger
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting. -- Buzz Bissinger
It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi. -- Frederick Lenz
Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet. -- Carl Lewis
Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified. -- George Vecsey
The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears. -- Frederick Lenz
A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas. -- Chris Crutcher
Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being. -- Frederick Lenz
Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'. -- Jenny Meadows
Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement. -- Frederick Lenz
The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses. -- Frederick Lenz
When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system. -- Frederick Lenz
If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play. -- Frederick Lenz
One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit. -- Frederick Lenz
Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts. -- Frederick Lenz
Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line. -- Ray Lewis
While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations. -- Gail Devers
But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone before. All I've done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. Athletics aren't just running, it's a way of life -- Percy Cerutty
I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports. -- Joe Namath
I grew up in athletics, where people keep score. -- Phil McGraw
I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing. -- Mary Kom
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy. -- Jai Courtney
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. -- Robert M. Hutchins
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 love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young. -- Dominique Dawes
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that. -- Jeffrey Archer
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics. -- Herschel Walker
In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically. -- Bill Gates
Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming. -- Clare Balding
The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front. -- Sebastian Coe
These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception. -- Oscar Pistorius
Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town. -- Herschel Walker
College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids. -- Susan Orlean
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. -- Ai Weiwei
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. -- Charlie Pierce
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town. -- Zola Budd
Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends. -- Sally Pearson
I can't compare family to athletics. -- Joe Namath
There is no better leader in collegiate athletics than Tom Brady. -- Lloyd Carr
Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition. -- Trishelle Cannatella
If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile. -- Bear Bryant
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics. -- Karen DeCrow
There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics. -- Nathan Adrian
Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind. -- Sally Pearson
I've always been really comfortable around athletics, I've just never been comfortable playing anything. -- Amy Adams
In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.' -- Aimee Mullins
Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics. -- Flea
We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over. -- Alberto Juantorena
I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it. -- Percy Cerutty
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition. -- Arthur Lydiard
You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life. -- Sheryl Swoopes
Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research. -- Joe Jamail
If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important. -- Tony Romo
I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept. -- Gerald McRaney
We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world. -- Alberto Juantorena
When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first. -- Ken Norton
We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world. -- Alberto Juantorena
I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m. -- Michael East
If it is a clichÐ¹ to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich. -- Gerald R. Ford
I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition. -- Sebastian Coe
You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do. -- Jill Lepore
I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times. -- Geoff Stults
It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything. -- Hope Solo
I want to stay involved in athletics; I want to encourage kids to take part and try to grow the sport. -- Usain Bolt
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. -- William Standish Knowles
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. -- Jesse Jackson
It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics. -- Frederick Lenz
Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon. -- Lauren Fleshman
I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance. -- Kirsty Coventry
I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill. -- Shawn Johnson
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics. -- Percy Cerutty
If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end. -- Roger Staubach
I grew up knowing I would be good at athletics, and dreams of a Super Bowl were always within reach as long as I progressed. -- Matt Willig
Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud. -- Andrew Sullivan
In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for. -- Daley Thompson
I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking. -- Jon Bernthal
If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The whole sexiness thing-I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. But it has helped the sport grow. I think it changes how people see women's athletics. -- Jennie Finch
A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school. -- Flea
Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998. -- Ato Boldon
Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.) -- Robert M. Sapolsky
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands. -- William Howard Taft
I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get. -- Robert Huber
In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics. -- Clair Bee
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system. -- Jesse Jackson
Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation. -- Bruce Lee
All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential. -- Hyrum W. Smith
Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything. -- Matt Bomer
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading. -- Harold E. Varmus

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