Definition of Athletics

Athletics

The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

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Athletics Quotations

Athletics is a luxury.
Roger Bannister

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.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.
Trishelle Cannatella

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
Roger Staubach

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.
Herschel Walker

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.
Arthur Lydiard

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.
Parminder Nagra

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.
Zola Budd

We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.
Alberto Juantorena

We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.
Alberto Juantorena

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
Bob Richards

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
Robert M. Hutchins

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
Bob Lilly

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
Edwin Moses

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.
Ato Boldon

We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over.
Alberto Juantorena

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
Michael East

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
Alberto Juantorena

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
William Standish Knowles

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.
Clark Kerr

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.
Steve Mariucci

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.
Robert Huber

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.
Kim Collins

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.
Gerald McRaney

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
Avery Brundage

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Athletics Translations

athletics in Dutch is atletiek, krachtsport
athletics in German is Leichtathletik
athletics in Italian is atleta leggera
athletics in Spanish is atletismo

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