Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.
Mia HammTags: little-girl athletes
All things old become new again. In my youth the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald.
Harley KingTags: age youth hair hippies athletes bald
Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and then went on their way rejoicing.
E.M. ForsterTags: athletes
We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
Pat ConroyTags: basketball sports game sportsmanship sports-inspirational athletes
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
Criss JamiTags: reality practice self-esteem confidence self winning enemies opposition sports fighting achievement competition striving training searching pressure improvement enemies-and-opposition mirrors athletics rivals academics struggling athletes scrambling practicing
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
Donald BradmanTags: ambition dignity athletes sportsman
Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.)
Robert M. SapolskyTags: personality athletes
The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection
You could limit your human existence to filling your shape with a muscle
("Tennis")
Tags: muscle athletics athletes athletic
Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to let it go. You get know it so well, you're not afraid of it anymore[...]You can't hate the Beast and expect to beat it; the only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
Christopher McDougallTags: science philosophy exercise running the-beast athletes
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