Quotes on Athletic

A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to... take yourself out of the game.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.