#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

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

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

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances. ↗

— Peter Snell

#career #circumstances #developed #gold #gold medal

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 was always athletic and I could do a lot of things. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#athletic #could #i #lot #things

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#ancient #apparent #aspect #athletics #cities

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#human #human race #muscular #physique #race

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition. ↗

— Keeth Smart

#athletic #being #biggest #business #competition

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job. ↗

— Donovan Bailey

#athletic #border #canadians #degree #diploma