#athletics

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

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 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

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 three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#alumni #athletics #campus #faculty #major

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#basketball #become #blacks #deny #dominant

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#grew #i #keep #people #score

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports. ↗

— Joe Namath

#focused #i #outdoors #sports

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. ↗

— Clark Kerr

#alumni #athletics #campus #faculty #find

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