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I have only ever done athletics. I was only average at school and I have never done any other sport.
Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.
Athletics is not like cricket; we feed on the competition and that makes us bring out the best in us.
If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important.
Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.
I like watching athletics and I like watching boxing. Probably the sprints, I like watching sprinting.
There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.
We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.
I wanted to be a father, and I wanted to be involved in my children's athletics, school stuff like that.
I've always been really comfortable around athletics, I've just never been comfortable playing anything.
In the NBA, it's wins and losses. You don't have to deal with some of the hypocrisy of college athletics.
I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.
I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.
I'm very happy to have set a world record in Tallinn. Estonians sure do love athletics and combined events!
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.
For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.
In so many ways, I just love athletics. It would be really hard for me to pivot outside of the sports world.
I started Little Athletics when I was five years old, but my Olympics dream started when I was 10 years old.
I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.
I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.
I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.
I grew up watching the Olympics and did some athletics for my school, winning the Welsh pentathlon championship.
When I was competing I didn't have a nutritionist. It wasn't something that British athletics offered back then.
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.
When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.
I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.
If athletics wasn't an option, I'd probably work at like a surf shop in Hawaii on the beach, just dishing out surf boards.
I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for that's been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.
I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your purpose.
I grew up knowing I would be good at athletics, and dreams of a Super Bowl were always within reach as long as I progressed.
I was very active in college. I wanted to play athletics, and then I looked at wrestling as being a viable option to do that.
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
I'm a huge sports fan. I love the psychology of athletes and the culture of athletics. I'm constantly drawn to those kinds of stories.
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.
In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
At cricket, I was mainly a bowler and tried to bat. I hit the odd four or six and then got out! In athletics, I was mainly triple jump and 200m.
I'm thankful that my career at Oklahoma was marked with consistent leadership in president David Boren and director of athletics Joe Castiglione.
Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.