Non-Athletic Quotes

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

I'm not athletic.

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

I am not a sportsperson. I used to spend all my time in front of a computer.

As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

I'm not a guy who has ever seen the inside of a gym.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

I'm 6'3" and 185 pounds on a good day, so I probably relate more to the casual fan who watches the game and is not super athletic, not this crazy monster of physical stature.

I'm not really a huge team player guy; I wasn't really into sports or anything.

I don't do sports, really.

I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

I've never been someone who'd done any sports.

My parents found this paper from my high school theater class where you had to write down what you wanted in a significant other. At the bottom, it said, 'No athletes, because they're arrogant.'

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

I don't run like any type of athlete.

I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

I like to think I'm one of the least athletic people in real life. I don't do a whole lot when I'm left to my own devices except wield forks and knives.

My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.

I definitely wasn't the kid playing sports. I was super different.

I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a giant kid with no athletic ability.

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated.

I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.

I'm not one of those football people who thinks and talks nothing but football.