1.   Ron was so enthusiastic for young athletes to do well.

2.   It was a long jump competition where the athletes did themselves no favours at all by carrying weights.

3.   An athletic scholarship is a exceptional reward for excellence in sports, but if the athletes can do better on the open market, why should the NCAA argue?

4.   As any sports medic will tell you, the worst thing an athlete can do is to come back too soon.

5.   As he has aged, Holyfield has begun to face what most athletes do.

6.   At the UW, athletes also do agility circuits, a drill in which they jump boxes, change directions and maximize explosiveness.

7.   Athletes do well too, but they are not in the boardroom league.

8.   Athletes might do better with the powdered form, which costs the same, but makes two gallons.

9.   At their best the Olympics touch us with awe and wonder as gifted athletes do the seemingly impossible.

10.   Athletes cannot do that unless they are transcendently good.