Quotes about Athletics
Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
— Bo Jackson
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
— Billie Jean King
I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.
— Jon Bon Jovi
If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.
— Aristotle
I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.
— Michael Jordan
All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
— Babe Ruth
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
— Bo Jackson
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
— Muhammad Ali
I just go out and play my best tennis.
— Angelique Kerber
I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.
— George H. W. Bush
Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
— WP Kinsella