"Athleticism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... exhorted the students not to be satisfied with a life of sterile athleticism. "I never was an athlete," said he, "although I have always led an outdoor life, and have accomplished something in it, simply because my theory is that almost any man can do a great deal, if he will, ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer
... no lack in the scion of the Surtaine line. Neither, however, was he wholly destitute of reasoning powers and caution. The figure before him was of an unquestionable athleticism; the weapon of obvious weight and fiber. The ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams |
