Athletic may refer to:
- An athlete, or sportsperson
- Athletic director, a position at many American universities and schools
- Athletic type, a physical/psychological type in the classification of Ernst Kretschmer
- Athletic of Philadelphia, a baseball team of the 1870s
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Famous quotes containing the word athletic:
“He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exercise. He had little education and highly developed muscles—that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.”
—H. Seton Merriman (1862–1903)
“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness—a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.”
—Douglas Jerrold (1803–1857)