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«The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon»
«It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.»
«Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.»
«Th' athletic fool, to whom what Heaven denied / Of soul, is well compensated in limbs.»
«In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.»
«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.»
«We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.»
Author: Mike Newlin | About: Sports | Keywords: athletic, atrocities, atrocity, quintessence
«I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.»
Author: Uma Thurman (Actress) | Keywords: athletic, tall
«Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness -a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.»
«We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation of material attachments, the unbridled soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly -- the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.»