Definition of Athletics

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Definition of Athletics
	Athletics The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes. Related Definitions: And, Art, Athletic, By, Games, Of, The, Training

Athletics Quotations

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

Athletics is a luxury.
Roger Bannister

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

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

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

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

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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