Athletic Quotes

• 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.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Life
  • Great
  • May

• I'm naturally athletic. I've been involved in sports since I could walk. So, for me to be sedentary is just unacceptable. Not only is it great for your physical body, but it gives me more energy during the day if I've worked out. I feel better. I look better.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Energy
  • Involved
  • I Feel

• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Children
  • Greatness
  • Strength

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

  

  Isaiah Mustafa
  • Ability
  • Waste
  • Athletic

• You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.

  

  Reynolds Price
  • Realizing
  • Students
  • Tendencies

• Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Moments
  • Goal
  • Athlete

• If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

  

  Michael Owen
  • Training
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

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