Athletic Quotations | Page 2

What this group of seniors has accomplished in this athletic program is ridiculous. They are just fantastic.

What they've done is take the other younger kids under their wings and give them leadership. We're not the most athletic team, but something's working for us.

When we did our due diligence, we did it based upon the thought of putting athletic fields there.

When we first watched him in college, we knew he was an athletic guy who could make plays. We liked his ability to play in space. We always felt that that he was getting better and better, so we liked him from the beginning. (He's) become a pretty great player for us, a good sub guy that really can play all three (linebacker) positions.

What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the worst athletic programs around, but we've worked hard to get where we are today.

We broke it down into indoor facilities and outdoor facilities. The (high school athletic facilities) committee listed what we felt every school needed in priority order.

We brag when our athletic teams are the top 20 in the country. We need an education team that's in the top 20 as well.

We are getting more balanced. We are not having to rely on one or two people to win. We are more athletic than we were before.

We knew they were athletic and William Thomas (33 points) is very good, so this is a good game for our kids to play and get a win. We didn't shoot the ball well or rebound all that great, so it is good to just get out of there with a victory.

We know we've really got to keep them off the boards. They're as athletic as any team we've played, so it means we're going to have to really box them out.

We know France are exciting, quick, strong, organised and very athletic with good movement but I'm getting the videos of them in and we're very confident.

I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business.

We've got big guys on the front line. Me, Jeff and Roy. Jeff and I are athletic and Roy, he's 7-2. So when he gets his hands up, he's eight feet, maybe taller. So that can pose a problem to anyone, if we use it right.

We have no seniors. We have a young and athletic team. I think this is the year we'll turn the corner.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.

We were trying to run at him and make him get the ball to someone else to make some shots but he's very good. He scores the basketball when he has the ball in his hands, and he's very quick and he's very athletic and it's tough to keep the ball out of his hands.

I don't swim! That's like athletic.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

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.

We absolutely addressed some of our needs today. Our goal was to get more athletic and bigger to help with the rule changes (the addition of the 24-second shot clock).

People don't realize that I'm mobile, athletic and strong-armed.

This was as minimal an amount as I could do to make us compete at very high levels. This is the best five years in this school's athletic history, not just in the wins by the football team but certainly in academics.

We are not athletic or quick enough to be playing from behind. These guys know it, and the coaching staff knows it. Boy, did (Arizona) play well.

We are not athletic or quick enough to be able to play from behind. The players know it. The coaching staff knows it. That was our worst nightmare.

We're playing a team that is similar to us. They'll be more athletic than us. So we'll have to run our offense.

We thought we could get to the offensive boards. I thought we were a little bit bigger than they were. ... a little more athletic with our big girls. That's what we have to do. If we're going to win games, we've got to get to the boards and everybody knows that.

We ran into a team that was more athletic and better prepared. They were a team that is more experienced in the atmosphere that we played in. The press hurt us.

We're asked that question every time before an Olympics, and I really don't believe it's going to happen. The Olympics are unique. People come in large numbers . . . to really be engaged by these very unique athletes who put so much on the line for such a brief, brief period of their athletic careers.

We're a much more athletic team than we've ever been.

We hope to make the athletic booster club so happy with this brand new program that they want to help us out.

We have quickness, we have athletic ability, good hands and good heads. We just don't have good games.

We've shot well the last two nights and that's encouraging. I can't complain about the offense, they were just too athletic to stop consistently on defense. We had no answer for their athleticism.

We've set the bar to get to the final four and not just get there, but win it all. These girls are scholars of the sport who have learned the game mentally and have the athletic ability to succeed.

The reality is, it's customary for athletic teams that are in these kinds of big games to provide the Governor's Office with access to tickets.

There is certainly significant quality in our book both in terms of the quality of the horses at the end of the shank and in their racetrack performance. We had a bunch of horses that worked well during our first under tack show, they looked good doing it, and they look good when you go to the barn. In the 2-year-old sales, you've got to pass all three tests, and we had a number of horses that I thought passed all three tests with flying colors in the first preview. They have good conformation, they looked good on the video, and they worked within a reasonable timeframe in terms of demonstrating some level of athletic ability.

What we do have over at the stadium is only suitable for a brief meeting at pre-game and halftime. Both the home and visitors teams have to go from this building (Leggett & Platt Athletic Center) to that building.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

If I am anorexic, Id be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.

We have heard tremendous positive feedback from the university athletic directors, conference commissioners and the baseball coaches. There is a great deal of momentum surrounding college baseball, and this project is another significant step forward.

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, `'pidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over.

We're having great success with it. I think it has a lot to do with our talent. We've got some kids who are pretty athletic and play very hard.

This really helps our program move forward. The loss of 28 scholarships would have been athletic suicide. We never would have been able to survive that.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.

We've never had a need for them to do that, but that shows how athletic they are.

Luckily he's just athletic, and he remembers enough and he's trained hard enough to come out there and beat somebody that is as strong and athletic as that kid was.

Luke is very intelligent and is very quick. He also is determined and is very athletic for a big guy. He's been very committed and dedicated in the weight room and has worked very hard.

Lewisville is a very athletic team who will come at you with their style of play. Our defense played well and we were able to shake off our foul trouble. It wasn't a pretty game, but at least we had a positive ending.

Let me call that athletic looting, to be provocative, and we won't stand for that.

Scott is one of the most talented and respected athletic directors in the nation. With Scott's arrival, I believe we now have one of the strongest, most experienced, and talented administrative teams in the nation.

Sean's been the most consistent both in getting into plays and making decisions and making throws. Sean has thrown the ball more accurately than he did last fall. He's made very good decisions. He is against a couple of quarterbacks who are more athletic than he is. So it's not so much as what he's done wrong, but the other kids have done some things right. That's why this is a tough decision.

She's very fast and very athletic. She may be the most athletic kid we've ever had on any of our teams.

She's athletic. She's got decent size. She can score. That's where this league is going. This league is going bigger and to people that are athletic and can score. She fits that mold.

She's a player. She loves the game and wants to be involved in every play. She's a very determined hitter and one of the most athletic players I've ever coached.

She's really, really athletic and she's got an athletic mind. You can put her anywhere and she'll function well.

She's growing as a player and has an all-around game. She's very athletic and quick on the court.

She's been coming to our camps since the third grade. She has tremendous work ethic. She's so athletic and she can do so many things.

She's extremely athletic and she has a good understanding of the game. She gets after it on the basketball court and she just has a good overall package.

She's one of the bigger, more athletic kids at that '3' spot in the state, and she's really embraced that role.

She's always, sometimes to a fault, courteous and has great patience with people. She's been a terrific employee of this athletic department for the last 28 years.

Seymour usually finds ways to get the ball in the end zone because they're real athletic and give you so many formations,

Some artists are able to pull off a very form-fitting, painted-on look that's very modern, but I have actually come around to embracing the idea that that these costumes are more like athletic uniforms than high-tech skin suits.

Show me a town that's got a good athletic program, they've got total support,

(Shields and Williams) work really hard. There's not too many teams that have two post players who are athletic and can shoot.

She writes her own music, sings beautifully, she's athletic and has everything going for her.

She doesn't have the athletic ability that the others do at her position but the others don't have her heart. She works so hard.

She has a big upside because she is long and athletic and versatile on offense. With her size and length, she will become a very good player in that league.

She is going to be the most athletic player on the floor. She's everywhere on the floor, she's a great defender and she's a slasher-type. She likes to take the basketball and create.

She is doing a great job for us. She is very athletic and playing an all-around nice game as a freshman.

She really gives us a great inside presence. With the athletic abilities that our guards have, Mallory is a very good compliment that we can plug in there and get results.

She is very athletic and intelligent. We could tell she was something special when we saw her play.

She never played without her back to the basket as a kid growing up because she was always taller, but now she's bringing the ball up the floor and I don't think it's phased her a bit. Her athletic ability is what carries her through.

Mike's a heck of an athlete. He's an athletic kid, a quick kid, and he stepped up today.

Mike is a special player. Kelvin is very athletic and knows the game. I feel very confident with both guys.

Mike has learned he's had to work harder at this level and that scoring isn't as easy as it was in high school. He was always bigger and more athletic than people he played against. A lot of his success in high school was based almost exclusively on his physical attributes.

Miriam was our most athletic player, and she's probably the most athletic player I've coached in years. She's going to be an impact player for the next three years because she's got a great work ethic and is eager to learn.

McNair was less risky than Young probably, but I also think that Young has more upside than McNair. McNair was probably more advanced because of the system that they used (at Alcorn). Young is a little more athletic and probably a little faster than McNair was, and with Young you've got a guy that has unbelievable potential.

Maurice gives us an option as a big back with athletic ability who also has good receiving skills. His basketball success in high school indicates his great athletic ability.

Matt's somebody I've known for a few years and is willing to play the part. He can dig into it on the athletic side and the illness side, but he'll also look and ride and feel like a professional cyclist.

My job as an athletic trainer is to prevent injuries as much as possible. I also help with strengthening and conditioning, guidance in nutrition and sleeping, and I also make sure the playing area is safe.

Of all the road trips we make in (the California Coast Athletic Association), this one probably is the toughest, not only because it's our longest trip (in mileage), but also because both teams are very competitive.

My decision, upheld by the athletic board, is Reuben had violated a student-athlete code of conduct by being charged with the felony and in so doing he should not be able to play.

Munster is phenomenal. They are so athletic and deep and when they shoot lights out like that, my good gracious. I was very proud of my girls. We put forth a very good effort; I liked how we finished the game.

My athletic ability is both a gift and curse.

More and more people are following the sport now and they can see that it is an athletic sport.

Memphis is athletic and good, but if you can keep them from running you can hang around. If you let them drive into the heart of the defense, they will be hard to beat.

My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal - get book published - we attacked it. At any given time, I would have my writing out in 25 various forms - either contests, mentoring critiques, agent/publisher queries, etc.

My grandparents on my mother's side owned a farm, and I grew up on the farm. If it wasn't for an opportunity to get an athletic scholarship ... to pay for my education, to this very day, I would be a farmer up in Pennsylvania with my cousins.

Now we have the finest athletic facilities. There's not a campus in the state system that has better athletic facilities then Slippery Rock.

Naturally most sportsmen who can make the transition have a fire in the belly. It's much like being a financial gladiator -- or an athletic gladiator.

Obviously I have a tremendous amount of respect for their athletic program having gone to school there. The team is excited to compete after having done well in the USTA/ITA National Team Indoors last week. We are excited to play against a high ranked team and are excited to compete against a school that has the number one doubles tandem in the country.

Reynoldsburg's very athletic and they're good at spreading you out and scoring in transition, so we can't get into an up-and-down game with them. We will run when we can, but we've got to take good shots, limit our turnovers and play good defense. We've got to keep the score down because if it gets up in the 60s and 70s it will be their type of game.

Ricky showed a lot of heart and refused to give up on that play. He's a lot faster and more athletic than most people realize.

Perk Valley, to me - and Pottstown - are probably the two most athletic groups. I like what they did.

Perk Valley, to me -- and Pottstown -- are probably the two most athletic groups. I like what they did.

Plus he bench-presses 330 pounds. We've got to take advantage of his talents ... We need six or seven (receivers), and Tyler is smart, he's heady and he understands coaching. Plus he's athletic and can really catch the ball.

Pops is extremely athletic and a special player. He's another added mature player who makes our offense flow a lot better. And he's a presence inside on defense. So we're glad to have him back.

My sense is that the efforts being made by athletic directors (to interview and hire black candidates) have been more timely and complete. There is an improvement. ... But at the end of the day you have to be objective and measure this in wins and losses, and that's a bittersweet perspective. Hiring two coaches and increasing your total 66% just underscores how much distance we have to go.

My understanding is the athletic director is going to now, hopefully, put it on the front burner this year. In my personal opinion, they were going to fix football before they fixed basketball. I know a couple of the people are basketball people who gave money to football and that's fine. They gave money to the university.

Nick's very athletic and gives us an imposing presence coming off the edge. Greg will be solid for us on the strong side.