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We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that helps me with the athleticism.
I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.
Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?
The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness
I don't want to sound condescending, so I'm not going to say anything else, except that it is literally impossible to imagine a thing dumber than sports.
Sports don't build character; they reveal it.
You are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.
Ex-jocks, like all jocks, never back down from a good fight. Jocks are alphas (or betas, aspiring) and animals.
Suckas on my jock when I walk down the block,
I really don't care if you're jealous or not.
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.
I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.
I've always been a closet jock, but when I got married and had kids, that fell by the wayside.
Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.
I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?
Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer
Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?
Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.
I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.
Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.
Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.
Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.
work. play. passion.
I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.
Sports is my passion.
People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.
The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.
I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.
I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens ... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.
Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.
With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity.
Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.
Sports brings people together.
Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.
If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!
Did you come out of the womb a dickhead or develop that jockstrap personality on your own? (Hunter)
I was an athlete when I was growing up.
It was what made him good at team sports: soccer, basketball, politics. Miller
There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.
insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about
I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things.
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
I was a competitive guy growing up.
The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.
It's the geek who gets the girl, not the jock.
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.
One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
There's more geeks in this world than jocks. And, most of us are on line!
The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?
Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.
I played sports in high school and in college.
Sports keep you feeling cheerful, feeling spirited, it's a kind of a thriving feeling.
Femininity and sport can go together.
I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.
This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.
The vast majority of sportsmen are left with little choice as regards how to play, serfs to their talent, but the very best are able to do so as they want, impressing personality upon ability.
I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey. My younger brother played pro hockey. I was the music kid. But I always loved sports. I grew up around it.
Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.
I am not a sports girl.
When you live around a working-class environment, you see what sports means to people. You see that it's the escape over the weekend. you see how they build their lives around it. People sort of want to get away from their lives.
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.
Sport is the big giveaway. Wherever sport plays a big part in people's lives you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting to break up the furniture.
Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.
Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head.
People see my body and ask me what I do to work out. I play a lot of basketball, so I'm constantly dribbling and running up the court. I take a basketball with me everywhere I go!
When we understand the privilege of what it means to be an athlete, we are in touch with, and rejoice in, our physical, mental, and emotional strengths and our endless possibilities.
I probably went into sports with a sense of competitiveness and came out of it even more competitive.
There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.
As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.
A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential for great programming teams, too.
Sports is the toy department of life.
Tradition, Honor, Excellence.
I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.
Sports are not for everyone.Sports-- Dante Hall
I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.
I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.
I'm not an athlete; I'm a quarterback. I don't have great speed, and I can't throw 90 yards down the field. I win games because I've done the mental preparation.
I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.
I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.
High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.
When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.
I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.
Sport is not my thing.
So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.
You keep meaning to cultivate an expertise in spectator sport. More and more you realize that sports trivia is crucial to male camaraderie. You keenly feel your ignorance. You are locked out of the largest fraternity in the country.
Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.
I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.
Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.
I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn't look like a nerd. I never really fit into any social set.
In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
Sport is an essential element of education.
People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.