#athletic

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#athletic #both #burdens #character #consists

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

— Arthur Lydiard

#competition #encourage #enjoy #force #kids

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it. ↗

— Oliver Reed

#athletic #club #death #eat #food

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top. ↗

— Bob Richards

#cut #discipline #going #good #got

I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#anything #aspects #athletic #bad #becoming

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#athletics #available #council #day #every

I don't swim! That's like athletic. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#i #like #swim

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#athletic #been #college #go #i

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#bright #funny #i #just #kid

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life. ↗