#athletics

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#athletics #comes #cuts #effort #good

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind. ↗

— Sally Pearson

#athletics #back #general #mind #sprinting

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics. ↗

— Kim Collins

#everything #feel #go #i #much

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

Athletics is a luxury. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#luxury

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#because #could #day #fit #got

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

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 could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m. ↗

— Michael East

#athletics #could #found #i #myself

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#being #business #business world #competing #develop