#athletic

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#fall #first #first time #get #girl

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#beginning #finally #get #infancy #passage

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done. ↗

— Jaime King

#athletic #base #because #been #bulletproof

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art. ↗

— Avery Brundage

#art #athletics #failed #fine #fine art

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

— Trishelle Cannatella

#because #competition #i #just #like

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance. ↗

— Kirsty Coventry

#because #body #endurance #go #handle

We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#great #great qualities #integrity #maintain #over

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best. ↗

— Mary Decker

#added #athlete #athletic #back #because

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town. ↗

— Zola Budd

#always #athletics #background #barefoot #coming

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#athletics #class #days #easily #i