Athletic Ability Quotes

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  • [On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

    Race   Practice   Giving  
  • Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

    Soccer   Kids   Athletic  
  • 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.

  • My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.

  • If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

    Sports   Athletic   Waste  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I work out hard, and I do things that I feel make me better throughout the race and after the race. And I feel better mentally because of working out, being prepared and being in great shape. Driving the car, I think with reflexes and things throw at your so quickly, you have to make adjustments - the feeling of your car, the heat. Some tracks can be tough on your neck and arms, and other tracks, not so much. I think there's a lot there that definitely takes some athletic ability, and I think that helps being athletic and being prepared like that. It helps me for sure.

  • My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like, `Epidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over.

    Mom   Giving   Athletic  
    "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.
  • If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.

    Football   Winning   Fire  
    John Elway (1997). “Comeback Kid”, Taylor Pub
  • I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

  • When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.

  • I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.

    Jobs   Believe   Blessed  
  • Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.

    Anxiety   Athletic   Mind  
    Source: www.buzzfeed.com
  • It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

  • In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players.

    Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com
  • Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

    Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.18, Bantam
  • I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  • I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

    "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.
  • I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don't last forever.

    Source: prointerviews.org
  • I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it.

  • I wanted to take up a sport the real way and see if I actually had athletic ability. And then I happened to see it was during the Atlanta Olympics. And there was a lot of coverage of archery because the U.S. men's team won all the medals. And I thought, "Wow, that's beautiful. And it's so dramatic, a beautiful sport. And I wonder if I would be good at it?"

    Beautiful   Sports   Real  
    "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.
  • 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.

    Football   Team   Dragons  
    Interview with Larry King, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.
  • when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.

    Sports   Football   Book  
    "Bengals LB Jones proves to be a true Renaissance man". Interview with Michael Fabiano, www.nfl.com. May 17, 2011.
  • Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • My mom and my real father divorced before I was one. My mom and my stepfather divorced when I was in high school. Then she fell in love with a guy, and the guy died. That was a rough time. She has handled adversity well. That's where I got my work ethic. So my mother's where I got my love of music, but my father's where I got my athletic ability. And my hair loss. And my love of women.

    Mom   Mother   Real  
  • Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

  • I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.

    Player   Space   Athletic  
    Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com
  • 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.

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