1. athletics - Noun
2. Athletics - Proper noun
The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAll the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms. Camille Paglia
Athletics is a luxury. Roger Bannister
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
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
On the 2004 Summer Olympics: "Nobody proposed me anything to do with the Olympics. Nothing. Maybe the Olympics have become too much of a supermarket now. The other athletics events have more of the spirit of the Olympics." Vangelis