Top 1200 Track And Field Quotes & Sayings

Track and field is definitely a science and each year as an athlete you try to develop and become stronger.

At the end of the day, when you command a certain power in track and field, you sometimes you have to exercise it.

I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

I always dreamed of doing this, being able to do track and field and the NFL at the same time.

I actually like indoor track and field more than outdoor.

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

I began with track and field because this is what I know.

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Track and field has always interested me.

In track and field, Nike is all-powerful. They control the top coaches, athletes, races, even the governing body.

I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

Track and field is a sport that's about 'What have you done for me lately?'

I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.

The thing is, I'm a sports junkie.Everybody knows that. I could watch any of this stuff - track and field... anything - and really enjoy it.

Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

I had an opportunity for the Paralympics for track and field.

The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: track and field.

I think I was in the most historical and golden era of track and field.

John McDonnell is the Bear Bryant of track and field.

In high school, I did a little track and field and ran on my own. In college, I would run every now and again, but I didn't have enough time to be devoted to it.

The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.

I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.

I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.

My role models were from track-and-field - Florence Griffith Joyner, Gail Devers.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

I love the sport of track and field. If I can be the person to make it a big thing in this country, that would be amazing.

You see somebody on a football field make a great, athletic 70-yard run, but the athleticism is immeasurable. It's undoubtedly athletic, but compared to somebody else who did something else, how do you compare it? That's the great part of track and field. It's a test, but with results that you can compare to others.

Growing up in the sport, I've been able to separate what happens on the track with what happens away from the track. That track is totally different. I'm not the same person when I put that helmet one.

I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

I boxed. I did track and field; I did basketball, football, any sport I was able to sign up for.

I don't know much about the history of track and field, but I know Gail Devers.

"Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track."

What I do in long jump and track and field, it definitely correlates with what I do as a receiver. With being fast and being explosive and putting my foot down. It's the same mechanics that I use in football and track.

All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know.

I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.

In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

Surprisingly, maybe the place I get recognised the least is the United States. America is not so big on track and field. Some recognise me there but lots don't.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.

Once I was away from track and field, I was able to realize that life is something you really have to work on.

I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.

I knew there was no money in track and field unless you were unbelievable. So I stopped it when I was 13. I just really wanted to focus on soccer and with soccer training and high school, it would have been too much if I did track and field as well.

You have to have that dog-eat-dog kind of mentality. I think me playing football all my life and having that chip on my shoulder, not really getting the opportunities that I wanted, really carried over to track and field. It allowed me to use all that energy and put it in the direction of being the best track athlete that I could be.

I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC.

When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

Once I found out that track and field was an organized sport, the era I followed more closely was that of Maurice Greene and Michael Johnson.