Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sebastian Coe

The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.

To be honest, it was frustrating. It's hard. It's really hard for an athlete.

Towers is a very athletic team and we're going to have to slow down their inside game and keep them from running out on the break. They play a lot like West Hall and Paige Hanson so we know what to do, we just have to stop it.

George Davis

We think our spring league is the best in the state. Our softball youth just keep getting better and better and better. The athletic growth of these players has been phenomenal and we feel we have been a part of that.

There has always been a great awareness for athletics within our school. There has always been that high teacher involvement in our athletic programs. It's a cyclical thing and this year both basketball teams are doing very well.

We are very proud of these young men whose dedication and commitment earned them the opportunity to pursue their athletic talents beyond high school.

We are very optimistic about this season. We have a lot of seniors back and we are very athletic and quick this year. We have a tough schedule and will be tested early on, but we could compete for a district championship and make a run at state. That's our goal.

We are very excited about this year's class. It really solidified our depth on both sides of the ball at the skill positions while filling needs at other positions. This is one of the more athletic classes we have put together.

We did a decent job handling them, but they are one of the most athletic teams we will play. Pryor was a big factor, but the other guys are pretty good athletes, too.

We didn't match up very well with Gossett. She's very strong and athletic and she seals well once she gets position and she can definitely get off the floor.

We are going to be a much more athletic team this season. We are a much better hitting team this year.

I've been waiting for him to have a game like that. He's capable of putting a game like that together every single night. He's one of the most athletic players in our league.

Chan Gailey

I've been told that we are to treat him like I would treat any other student athletes. That's from the athletic director.

I've coached several great lines at Nevada Union and Placer. If this group reaches it's potential it could be one of the best lines I've coached. I haven't had a line like this with size, strength mixed with athletic ability. Usually any line has a weak link. This line doesn't.

... I use that stuff now even more than ever. A lot of times when you first come in, you're getting by on your speed or your athletic ability. When you start to lose that, that's when you start going to that kind of stuff. At that time, those guys were using that stuff and I was lucky to pick it up at a young age.

Things went pretty much as expected. Our goal this year was to win all three championships - Southern Chester County League, Athletic Association of Catholic Academies and District 1. We had never done it before but, we did it this year.

They are an extremely athletic team and they're very well coached. But we match up well with athletic teams, for whatever reason. Hopefully, we'll go down there and play well.

They are an athletic team. We will have to box out well, and keep them off the offensive boards. We will need to play solid man to man defense, and keep turnovers down on offense.

They are a heck of an athletic team. The are the most athletic team we've played.

They are a five seed and we are a 12 and we had to play on their home floor and that's always tough in sectionals. They are a very athletic team, a very veteran team that starts five seniors. They are very unselfish and they rebound extremely well.

The whole thing is a scam designed by friends of the athletic booster clubs. The expense is being transferred from the booster club and athletic department to the state treasurer.

We just stepped back and let her go. You've got to be athletic to keep up with her.

We were looking at it as a tune-up going into tournaments. They were an athletic team and a team that had some size. We were down 42-37 with two minutes left in the third quarter, but - as has been our nature all year - we kept our composure and didn't panic when we were down. I give our senior guys credit. They don't panic and this is the type of game we're going to be playing starting Monday.

Jon Favreau

What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the most athletic people, but they're very powerful people, and they have tremendous stamina... It takes a toll on their body, too.

Harold E. Varmus

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

Julie Adams

We try to spend a lot of time together. Even with athletics and her friends, we always make time for each other.

Ernie Els

When I stay athletic with good posture and get the club away in a good position, I get through it better.

With Jeremy back, we're able to bring Westley up and help with the press. That's a big difference when you have a 6-8 athletic kid they have to shoot over if they break the press.

Andy Dick

Weather is always going to be a problem. It's probably an athletic director's worst nightmare. You set schedules in stone a year before and hope everything goes well.

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You can look at it as flash versus fundamentals. They're the most athletic team we face, so we have to be fundamentally sound.

Chuck D.

We wanted to spread them out. We are much more athletic than most teams we play, and when we have played the ball wide, we've always got people who are well-disciplined in their positions back door.

We've had significant support from the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations), who have been closely involved over a period of time and are fully supporting the project.