Athletics Quotes

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  • To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.

    Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars
  • The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

    Health   Buddhism   Play  
  • Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.

  • Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.

  • There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.

    "Tim Ferriss Wants to Hack Your Body". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.
  • We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind

  • In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end of the field is receiving an impression, a vibration from you.

  • If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.

    Fall   Health   Buddhism  
  • Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

    Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars
  • The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

    Health   Buddhism   Mind  
  • He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

  • The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

    Health   Buddhism   Needs  
  • The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

  • Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.

  • The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

    Plato, Justin Kaplan (1951). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.240, Simon and Schuster
  • Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.

  • I think that there’s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something. You don’t win in life and you don’t win in athletics with softness or selfishness.

    Kids   Winning   Thinking  
  • Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki

  • Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

  • Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

  • When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics.

    Girl   School   Athletics  
  • The late start is due to the time.

  • On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

  • There are kinds of unity other than those of the explicit and systematic unity that Poole is attacking. There are kinds of movement - in music or athletics, for example - that present themselves as having a certain unity about them. In some sphere we might talk about 'style'.

    Unity   Style   Example  
    "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
  • Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

    "NFL All-Pro Ray Lewis". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 11, 2011.
  • On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'

    Home   Yankees   Two  
  • For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

    Art   Games   Long  
  • Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

    Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.197, Penguin
  • Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.

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