Top 317 Athletics Quotes & Sayings

Two decades in athletics is a long time in sports.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

Athletics is a luxury.

It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.

I never thought of a career in athletics.

Athletics is athletics. When you do sport, you are gambling. You run, you win, you lose. It doesn't matter if you are competing or you are not competing.

Athletics weren't really in the cards in my family - books, not body.

You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will bring it out of you. You're always stripping yourself down to the bones of your personality. And sometimes you just get a glimpse of the kind of talent you've been given. Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that.

In athletics, I've gone through ups and downs my whole life.

I've always had confidence when it comes to athletics. It's sometimes stubborn to a fault.

I was an average student, who took active interest in athletics.

Potential does not always ensure success. The greatest players have not always been the most endowed. In athletics, we often hear the phrase, "He has the will to win". I think this is wrong. We can have the greatest will to do well. But unless we have prepared, it is of little use. Really, it should be the "will to prepare". Those who succeed have this will, whether it be in athletics, whether it be in school, whether it be in their chosen vocation, whether it be on a mission, or in almost any other phase of their life.

The Olympics represent a global standard - for men, for women, for athletics.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

Athletics set the right sentiment for a clean and believable sport.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

I had always been involved in athletics throughout my life.

There is no better leader in collegiate athletics than Tom Brady.

If you look at history of athletics in the country almost all champions have hailed from the villages.

Athletics have become professionalized.

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.

Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.

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.

I am delighted that Jason Gardener will be taking over from me as President of U.K. Athletics. With his competitive background in the sport as an Olympic champion coupled with his engaging personality and his experience as a board member of U.K. Athletics, he possesses all the qualities required to be a successful president.

In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.

When I picked athletics, I knew I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics.

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

I am of the firm view that there is no impediment to me competing in athletics competitions.

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

I was good at two things, athletics and lying.

It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

It's very hard to win anything in athletics.

I literally did athletics my whole life.

I did not even know what athletics was; the Army taught me everything.

I don't think I even understand the full meaning of athletics.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

People in athletics thrive on competition. That's what makes you better.

There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.

There's been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.

In the NBA, it's wins and losses. You don't have to deal with some of the hypocrisy of college athletics.

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

Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.

If you look at the coverage of female sports and athletics across any of the broadcasters that participate in league rights and/or sports programming, women are underrepresented, and it's a chance and an opportunity for Lifetime to support that movement and the importance of athletics and competition for girls and women.

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

I've always been active: netball, hockey, rounders, athletics.

My dream is to see an Indian with a gold medal in athletics in the Olympics.

I can't compare family to athletics.

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

I have moved on now from athletics, but it was difficult initially after I retired.

I had discipline in other areas but certainly not in athletics.

You learn early in athletics that you'll have ups and downs.

When I was competing I didn't have a nutritionist. It wasn't something that British athletics offered back then.

Compared to our era, facilities in athletics have increased manifold. But contemporary athletes are not mentally tough. The new generation wants everything easily, but it is not possible in athletics.

Athletics is in my blood.

If you have speed you need not be only in athletics, you can choose any other discipline.

I enjoy my athletics, and I want to take it as far as I can.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.