Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. — Bill Russell
My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. — Roger Bannister
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great. — Billie Jean King
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible. — Lance Armstrong
Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability. — Robert A. Heinlein
Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness. — Tom Brady
People in the NBA are just as athletic as you. That’s the game. You have to have the change of pace. You have to change speeds to get around people. — Kawhi Leonard
I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps. — Matthew Gray Gubler
The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness. — Mia Hamm
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
Being pretty good at everything is more important than excelling in one pursuit. Be an athlete of life. — Peter Attia
Short Athletic Ability Quotes
I'm an athlete, I'm funny, I'm creative, I can tell a story, I'm likable. — Logan Paul
A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game. — Al Davis
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. — Stevie Wonder
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not. — George A. Sheehan
Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent. — Dan Marino
Your physiology determines the level of success you will achieve. — Gary Brecka
Athletic Ability Image Quotes
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.
Athlete Quotes
Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is. — Fidel Castro
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition. — John Smith
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. — Muhammad Ali
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson
A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that — Dan Gable
The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish. — Adrian Rogers
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Athletic Training Quotes
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating. — Paula Radcliffe
This measurement of highest oxygen consumption, called VO2 max, is the best gauge of cardiorespiratory fitness. Training the body to breathe less actually increases VO2 max, which can not only boost athletic stamina but also help us live longer and healthier lives. — James Nestor
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work — Andre Agassi
Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess. — Naval Ravikant
I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve. — Dick Fosbury
I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go. — Katie Hoff
The more I practice, the luckier I get. — Jerry Barber
Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training. You can't be lackluster in training and concentrate in a meet. — Edwin Moses
Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger. — Keith Brantly
Physical Ability Quotes
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. — Jim Valvano
Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that's real peace of mind. I don't have to worry about that when I'm walking around in the world. — Jocko Willink
The problem with government-provided money is that its hardness depends entirely on the ability of those in charge to not inflate its supply. Only political constraints provide hardness, and there are no physical, economic, or natural constraints. — Saifedean Ammous
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have. — Rudolf Nureyev
I think you should be able to imagine things in a different way. And, you have to dedicate both your physical and mental abilities to that ambition to accomplish it. — Nirmal Purja
Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed. — Mary, Queen of Scots
Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed. — Mary Stuart Masterson
Boxing is a science. You don't just walk into a gym and start punching. Fighters are born with differences in physical ability, but you also see a big difference in their skills. That's the trainers influence at work. — Eddie Futch
In nature, it is not only the physically weak but the mentally weak that get eaten. Now we have created this modern society in which we have every comfort, yet we are losing our ability to regulate our mood, our emotions. — Wim Hof
Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes. — Viswanathan Anand
Athletic Performance Quotes
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. — Dick Vitale
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind. — Stephen Covey
I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Everything good in life requires good sleep: good relationships, good mood, good athletic or academic performance, good mental health…I’d go so far as to say that good sleep is the foundation for getting anything you want in life. — Mark Burhenne
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. — Elgin Baylor
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time. — Frank Shorter
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. — Alan Armstrong
The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances. — Didier Deschamps
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. — Jean Houston
Athleticism Quotes
I'm not like a full athlete. But I'm definitely a boxer. — Logan Paul
I could be the quickest man on the planet. — Logan Paul
I was one of the best wrestlers in Ohio. — Logan Paul
But I'll tell you this: When I lose my athleticism, it's time to go. — Doug Flutie
When I saw that goal, the first thing I said was, 'You won't see a goal like that ever again.' It's one thing to have second effort but, on top of that, the athleticism he showed. It's just an example of the talent that he has. — Sidney Crosby
Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength or athleticism. Toughness is A SKILL that can be developed & improved. — Jay Bilas
The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile. — George Orwell
I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas. — Mia Hamm
My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so I gave up baseball, and it was perfect timing because baseball was going to give up me very soon. — Donald Trump
I've always like watching competition and athleticism. Just seeing the average person going up against Gladiators, is always something I enjoy. I'm not really a big sports fan, but I do enjoy the show. — Laila Ali
Artistic Ability Quotes
When you look at the greatest artists and creators, they have this ability to start over that nobody else does. — Naval Ravikant
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. — Fran Lebowitz
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. — Paul Klee
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. — Daniel H. Pink
The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops. — Igor Babailov
I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you'll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it's our ability to communicate that in certain ways. — Tom DeLonge
Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw. — Daniel H. Pink
Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change. — LeCrae
I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell. — Tom DeLonge
The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting. — Frantisek Kupka
Natural Ability Quotes
We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there. — Howard Gardner
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits. — Edward De Bono
Even if a man has no natural ability, he can be a warrior. — Miyamoto Musashi
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. — John D. Rockefeller III
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. — Francis Bacon
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. — Charles Darwin
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. — Eric Hoffer
Creativity is not a rare ability. It is not difficult to access. Creativity is a fundamental aspect of being human. It’s our birthright. And it’s for all of us. — Rick Rubin
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. — Baruch Spinoza
Athletic Competition Quotes
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. — Jesse Owens
It's all about the journey, not the outcome. — Carl Lewis
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life. — Pete Rose
Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.) — Robert M. Sapolsky
I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see". — Dick Fosbury
A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens. — Ozzie Smith
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place. — Criss Jami
I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. — Carl Lewis
I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars. — Johnny Weissmuller
Musical Ability Quotes
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful. — Benjamin Zander
Ability, when trained, becomes proficiency. Scribbling through training becomes hand writing. Talking through training becomes communication. Noise, under proper training becomes music. Don’t be satisfied with ability. Take the responsibility to make it a proficiency. — Mahatria Ra
I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had. — Berry Gordy
Music has to be recognized as an…agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion. And it has the ability to unite an entire community and to express sublime feelings. — Jose Antonio Abreu
Our point of view, not our drawing skills or musical virtuosity or ability to tell a story. — Rick Rubin
Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited. — Shinichi Suzuki
I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world. — Serj Tankian
God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people. — Patrick Henry Hughes
I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real. — Jeff Buckley
You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. — Sonny Terry
Mental Ability Quotes
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow
Character is the ability to consistently live in harmony with your values. Even when external and internal pressure is tempting you not to. It's also about having the mental flexibility to update your values as you grow and evolve. — Rangan Chatterjee
True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar. — RuPaul
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part. — Rene Dubos
Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function…exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems. — John Ratey
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. — Malcolm X
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. — Ana Castillo
In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins. — Muhammad Ali
You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions. — Bob Proctor
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better. — Bryce Courtenay
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability. — LeBron James
The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life. — Bruce Jenner
My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability. — Cardale Jones
Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make. — Jim Brown
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. — Andrew Carnegie
Personally, I think SmackDown! has to be a little spicier than it is, a little more electrifying than it is. It's got great athletes and they've got great action, they've done some tremendous stuff, but I want it to knock you off the couch when it opens up. And I think we as a group have the ability to do that. — Dusty Rhodes
If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside. — John Elway
All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure. — Roger Staubach
It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way. — Justin Gatlin
My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world. — David Rudisha
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose. — George Allen
He [Charlie Chaplin] was always playing as if it were to the camera, if you've seen the live shots of him when he's going to an opening night or something like that. And the skills that he had were beyond my ability to throw together. You just couldn't really compete with him. He was too athletic at that. — Eddie Izzard
This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows. — Olga Korbut
Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too. — Al Kaline
My prototypical quarterback is a competitive guy that's a winner, somebody that has great athletic instincts, somebody who is very accurate throwing the football, a quick-minded guy who can think fast on his feet and can make decisions quickly, someone who has leadership ability, an understanding of timing and can make really good decisions. — Jim Harbaugh
I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention. — Doug Stanhope
Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat. — Tim Tebow
An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons. — Major Taylor
If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport? — Isaiah Mustafa
Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control. — Frederick Lenz
I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best. — Mary Decker
My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like, `Epidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over. — Britney Spears
I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don't last forever. — Arthur Jones
Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful. — Brian Kilmeade
Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred? — Isaac Asimov
One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed. — Chuck Knox
Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire. — Alan Cohen
I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL. — Tim Tebow
As far as natural ability, I was always athletic. — Troy Brown
Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it. — Bill Toomey
In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves. — Eric Heiden
I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that. — Warren Buffett
The Olympics unite the world and inspire us to be a better version of ourselves. The competitions motivate the spectators, and the athletes' message is: You should have more confidence in your ability to achieve things, you should dream more. — Travis Tygart
I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration. — Ethan Canin
My mom and my real father divorced before I was one. My mom and my stepfather divorced when I was in high school. Then she fell in love with a guy, and the guy died. That was a rough time. She has handled adversity well. That's where I got my work ethic. So my mother's where I got my love of music, but my father's where I got my athletic ability. And my hair loss. And my love of women. — Kenny Chesney
Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved. — John Irving
Sports remain a great metaphor for life's more difficult lessons. It was through athletics that many of us first came to understand that fear can be tamed; that on a team the whole is more than the sum of its parts; and that the ability to be heroic lies, to a surprising degree, within. — Susan Casey
I wanted to take up a sport the real way and see if I actually had athletic ability. And then I happened to see it was during the Atlanta Olympics. And there was a lot of coverage of archery because the U.S. men's team won all the medals. And I thought, "Wow, that's beautiful. And it's so dramatic, a beautiful sport. And I wonder if I would be good at it?" — Geena Davis
I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability." — Geena Davis
In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players. — Justin Cole
I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space. — Justin Cole
There's things Calvin Johnson does that nobody else can do. He's obviously huge, his physical attributes outweigh just about everyone in the league. But on top of that, he still has the ability to learn. He's like a sponge and soaks up anything that can help him as an athlete, as a person. On top of that, he's not soft. He catches the ball and tries to get upfield to score. He doesn't slide or go out of bounds. That's a rare find in the NFL. — Nate Burleson
I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it. — Matt Holliday
Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability. — John Leguizamo
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