Words Of An Athlete.

Some inspiring quotes and pictures of the greatest athletes. ( I do not own these quotes or pictures)

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Your weight doesn’t define your fitness level :* Even if you are a bit bigger, you can still be fit! 

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Wild Atlantic Way, Signature Point: Inchydoney Beach, Clonakilty, Co.Cork.

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ESPN: “The Body Issue” Amanda Bingson, Paige Selenski, Natalie Coughlin, Leticia Bufoni, Ali Krieger, Aly Raisman,

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Can we just recognized that they all have different body types but are all extremely athletic.

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And none of these photos are hyper sexualized 👏🏻

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Oh my GOD

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Thank god people can actually take pics of women without sexualizing them! Wow

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This is amazing

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From personal experience can I just say that for people who are involved in underage sports teams that the majority of players are children. If you are an adult and you verbally harass players, you don't deserve and respect you have. You disgust me.

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“Why would you watch women’s sports, the players are terrible–”

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No man has ever scored a midfield goal in the World Cup Finals 

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chrissongzzz:

The world needs more awesome people like Novak Djokovic.

THIS IS A MUST WATCH GUYS

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Awww

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Beth Allen claims first LET title with Sophie Gustafson as caddie @letgolf

American Beth Allen shot a final round of 67 to come from five shots behind the overnight leader Caroline Masson and claim her first Ladies European Tour title at the ISPS HANDA Ladies European Masters.

In fair and breezy conditions, Allen fired five birdies on the front nine at Buckinghamshire Golf Club and picked up another on 14. She then made her only bogey on 15 before setting the clubhouse target at 12 under par.

With the world number one amateur Leona Maguire tied for the lead after 17 holes and playing in the next group, there was a nervous wait before Allen was able to celebrate her victory. She was finally able to lift her first trophy in 11 years as a professional after the 20-year-old found the bunker behind the 18th green and failed to make a putt of around five feet to force a play-off.  

Allen, 33, from San Diego, Califonia, said: “I wasn’t sure if it was ever going to happen so I’m really, really happy. I’ve waited a long time for this and I wanted it so, so bad, I’m ecstatic.”

She had finished second three times on the LET but her secret weapon was her new caddie, Sophie Gustafson. The 26-time tournament winner who has represented Europe eight times in The Solheim Cup and this year will be one of Carin Koch’s vice captains at St Leon-Rot in Germany, was on the bag advising Allen as she plotted her way around the Buckinghamshire layout.

“Honestly, I feel like I just showed up and I didn’t have a lot of expectations because I finished second here in 2012 and haven’t made a cut since,” said Allen. “I thought, well, I’ll do my best and enjoy it and today. I got off to a really good start and thought maybe this can happen and Sophie kept me grounded. I ended up getting it done, so I’m really happy!”

Gustafson knew the right things to say at the key moments, but a clubbing decision on the par three 18th tee cost the less experienced Maguire the chance to win the title.

Handling the disappointment like a professional, Maguire explained: “I knew it was tight coming up 18 and we didn’t really know where the wind was coming from. I thought it was downwind, dad thought it was into the wind and it was probably the wrong club off the tee but I’m very proud of the way I played all day. Going out at the start of the day I would have taken that so it’s been a great day.”

Thailand’s Nontaya Srisawang ended shot further back in third place after a solid 72 and she said: “I’m really happy with the result today because I’ve been working hard for a while here to get into this position. I finished in the top three, so maybe I can qualify for the Open. It was a little bit exciting with pressure but I tried to focus on my game.”

The overnight leader Caroline Masson slipped back into a share of fourth place with Nicole Broch Larsen of Denmark and Australian Rebecca Artis after a 75, while four players ended a stroke further back in tied seventh.

Finland’s Noora Tamminen, Anne-Lise Caudal from France and the evergreen Englishwomen Trish Johnson and Dame Laura Davies ended on eight under par.

Johnson holed a bunker shot on 18 for a 66, while Davies recorded her 11th hole in one on the seventh using an 8-iron in a round of 67. She said: “It’s more Solheim Cup points, which is what I wanted, to show Carin I’m still playing well and could be an asset to the team.”

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Calling my followers!

I'm doing a project titled Sexism and Female Influence in Sport and I want your opinions in the issue - please sent me any opinions on this topic and I will credit you in my project if I use anything you suggest!

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You are not that bad shot. You are not a bad game. You are not a moment of weakness. You are not your mistakes.

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Yes, exercise does get easier with time, but it will never be “easy.” If it were easy, it wouldn’t be exercise. You see, beyond just getting your body moving (which is great but will only get you so far), exercise has to challenge you.

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Ryder Cup in WWII

By ED TRAVIS

Scotland’s split with Great Britain may have been voted down last week but that’s not the only excitement in the country seen as the home of golf. The biannual Ryder Cup is begins Friday at the Gleneagles Hotel course in Perthshire and Team U.S.A. will try to make up for the crushing 2012 defeat they suffered at Medinah when the European squad won 8 ½ points in the Sunday singles to take the Cup back across the Atlantic.

The Ryder Cup is the ultimate of international golf competitions and has a fascinating history going all the way back to 1927. The first five Ryder Cups were each won by the home team until in 1937 when the U.S. squad captained by Walter Hagen beat Great Britain at Southport & Ainsdale Country Club in Southport, England. 

From 1939 through 1945 play was suspended due to the European war which became World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Most people don’t realize however during the war years the United States Ryder Cup team was still picked and actually played matches albeit not against the usual British opponents. It was against teams of other first caliber American players most notably Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen and were played to benefit war charities. 

In 1939 the American Ryder Cup team, with Walter Hagen as captain as he had been on the previous five teams, though never teeing it up against Great Britain was a real powerhouse led by Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Horton Smith, Paul Runyan and Jug McSpaden.

One day at an exhibition in Toledo Captain Hagen was doing a bit of bragging, spouting off, his team was so good they would have easily taken Great Britain if only the war hadn’t interfered…in fact, they could beat anybody. Sarazen, who was not on the team being neither selected by the PGA of America nor as one of Hagen’s captain’s picks, finally had heard enough. The feisty competitor who obviously had taken a burn at being “included out” called Hagen to task saying he and a team he would pick could beat Hagen’s Ryder Cuppers hands down.

The challenge was accepted and matches set for 1940 at Oakland Hills near Detroit. That first year Sarazen’s challengers (Ben Hogan, Jimmy Demaret and Craig Wood among others) were soundly beaten 7 to 5 but in 1941 the tables were turned. Sarazen had been able to convince the great Bobby Jones, at least this once, to come out of retirement and play in the matches at Detroit Golf Club. Jones’ skill helped make for a total reversal of results, a true upset, with the challengers winning 8 ½ to 6 ½. The next year Hagen didn’t make the Ryder Cup team so “The Haig” played with the challengers however Captain Craig Woods “official” Ryder Cup team were the winners any way 10 to 5 at Oakland Hills. 

Since it was felt the comparatively sparse crowds at Oakland Hills would be improved with a change in venue the 1943 competition was moved to Plum Hollow Country Club with Captain Craig Wood again fielding a strong team that included Sarazen, Jimmy Demaret, Lloyd Mangrum and Byron Nelson. Hagen was with the challengers again and teamed with such notables as Lawson Little, Harry Cooper and Bobby Cruickshank but still went down to defeat 3 ½ to 8 ½.

How important were these matches? Well certainly they were a diversion from the war as well as providing golf fans a chance to see their favorites who weren’t away serving in the military and they also raised a lot of money for charity. For example the final day of the 1942 matches $35,000 was raised for the Red Cross plus an auction of war bonds totaled $139,000. Jimmy Demaret donated one of his knitted tam o’shanters that brought a bid of $20,000 and a hat autographed by all the players went for $100,000. 

After the war was over with conditions in England slowly improving Ryder Cup play was resumed in 1947 at the Portland Golf Club in Portland, Ore. As a goodwill gesture (and because the English PGA couldn’t afford the expense) Portland businessman Robert Hudson paid for Great Britain’s team travel to Oregon including staterooms on the Queen Mary.

Not surprisingly and though the great Henry Cotton captained the visiting team the outcome was a lopsided win (11-1) for Ben Hogan’s Americans.

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Squats make knees stronger. Squats make athletes better. Squats are good for kids, teenagers, adults, elderly people, and anybody else who can perform them correctly. Squats are a functional expression of human skeletal and muscular anatomy, and the human body is designed to do them. The squat is the way that tens of thousands of years of evolution has adapted the bipedal human body to lower itself to the ground. It is the position in which half the population of South Asia spends the afternoon. And when done weighted, it is the best exercise in existence for strength, power, coordination, joint integrity, bone density, confidence, discipline, intelligence, and charm.

Mark Rippetoe (via thoughtsandsquats)

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Until there is equal support for women’s sport as there is for mens, I will not believe the sexism isn’t an issue.

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