This collection holds 190 athletics quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Roger Bannister, Haile Gebrselassie and Joe Namath.

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Athletics is a luxury.

Athletics is in my blood.

I can't compare family to athletics.

I literally did athletics my whole life.

I never thought of a career in athletics.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

It's very hard to win anything in athletics.

I was good at two things, athletics and lying.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

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

Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

I had always been involved in athletics throughout my life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

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

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

Athletics is not so much about the legs. It's about the heart and mind.

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

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

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

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.

I don't have rights. Let's put it this way: in athletics, I don't have rights.

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

The Time's Up movement extends to every college campus and, of course, athletics.

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

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.

I did athletics when I was at school. I ran the 100 meters but I got beat once so stopped doing it.

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.

Athletics is not like cricket; we feed on the competition and that makes us bring out the best in us.

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

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

If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important.

I like watching athletics and I like watching boxing. Probably the sprints, I like watching sprinting.

I've always been really comfortable around athletics, I've just never been comfortable playing anything.

I wanted to be a father, and I wanted to be involved in my children's athletics, school stuff like that.

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

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