Athletic Quotes

“His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection

You could limit your human existence to filling your shape with a muscle

("Tennis")”
― Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

“One thing that frees me from that battlefield is knowing that my strength and athletic build helped save my life.”
― Hillary Allen, Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds

“When you first see a Pekin duck waddling across the grass, wobbly and lopsided, you might think it's the most unathletic animal in the world. But if you then watch it swim, you'd realize if there were a Bird Olympics, it wouldn't take gold, but it isn't Eric Moussambani, either.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“The distant women bowed themselves; Nordic women who lived with their eyes looking at servants, as they were waiting; glaring in an intense white aspect, because they were athletic; because they had haircuts.”
― Jarrett McCall, The Breathing Advocate

“He looked around for a plank he could lay down between the rooftops for her to walk across.
But before he could think of some way of changing the subject- or staying on this one- the girl had found a pole of her own and leapt nimbly across to him. Far, far more gracefully than he had. Her robes swirled around her as she landed like a queen of the djinn alighting on the golden sands on the desert.
"I learn pretty quickly," she said with mock haughtiness.
Aladdin was once again speechless. What sort of rich girl was this? One who could leap like a mountain goat and play crazy at a moment's notice? Who had never seen poverty before and now, confronted with it, thought about it quietly rather than making rash statements? Who didn't care that Aladdin was a thief, except when he applied different standards to her?
He was a loner, not a hermit; he had known other girls. Morgiana the Shadow, Abanbanu the tailor's daughter, Nefret with the strange green eyes, who came from the desert when the moon was new to trade trinkets from faraway lands.
None of them was like this girl.”
― Liz Braswell, A Whole New World

“If handed an actual basketball, I would instantly cry. For me, doing sports was like meeting the Disney characters at Disney World. On TV I loved Mickey Mouse, but when I met the actual real-life Mickey, or rather his impersonator, and he tried to hug me in his warm fuzzy suit, I recoiled in fear.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“You don't have to let it go...just let it come to you. You know the basics...you know the snow...so trust yourself.”
― T.S. Krupa, On the Edge