#athletic

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#allowed #athletics #audience #engaged #everybody

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#ever #i #mastered #only

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

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude. ↗

— Bart Starr

#attitude #clearly #competition #defines #our

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

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. ↗

— Major Taylor

#aspiring #athletic #career #clean #clean living

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics. ↗

— Bob Lilly

#athletics #best #children #dad #encourage

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out. ↗

— Arthur Lydiard

#american #athletes #athletic #burn #burns

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