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
To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.
- Jesse Owens
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 got in athletics, which gave me self-esteem and made me feel like I had a place in the world; that was the initial attraction with acting for me.
- Ed Harris
Athletics is a luxury.
- Roger Bannister
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don’t force them to run too much competition.
- Arthur Lydiard
My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.
- Roger Bannister
Although they only give gold medals in the field of athletics, I encourage everyone to look into themselves and find their own personal dream, whatever that may be–sports, medicine, whatever. The same principles apply.
- Olympic quotes
I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
- Clark Kerr
The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle here where the broad prairies that are the world’s most fertile collection of farm fields meet the vast Great Lakes that are the world’s largest collection of fresh water.
- Andrew H. Malcolm
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
- Douglas William Jerrold
I didn’t get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
- Edwin Moses
I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
- Alberto Juantorena
Winning a medal is what every athlete dreams of, and if it is the Olympic gold then that is the icing on the cake.
- Jeff Fenech
Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.
- Haile Gebrselassie
This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That’s not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.
- Steve Mariucci
Many books about teaching, coaching, and motivational techniques and sayings can be of great help to the educational staff and team leaders. Mental training and body training should always go together in the formation of an athlete. Talent and skills are very important, and so is the athlete’s commitment, but a great impulse is given through motivational sayings to work your way of athlete up to the top.
- Anonymous
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