Athlete Quotes - Page 32

• Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Art, Mean

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• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

  Stan Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Confidence

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• Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.

  Paul Tergat

  Motivational, Running, Track

  "Coeurs d'athlètes". Sport/Documentary, 2003.

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• Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

  Jim Brown

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

  Ron Brown

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Adversity, Way

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

  Ben Hogan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

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• When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

  Joe Frazier

  Motivational, Sports, Brother

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• Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

  Brett Favre

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

  Reggie White

  Motivational Sports, Courage, Nfl

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• If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

  Oliver Kahn

  Player, Giving, Units

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• The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

  Esther Williams

  Wisdom, Teaching, Useless

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• When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

  Noureddine Morceli

  Motivational, Faith, Sports

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• If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.

  Clara Hughes

  Dream, Infinite Possibilities, Skater

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• True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

  Alexander Pope

  Sports, Delight, Pursuit

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.120

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• Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Sea

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• I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Olympics, Enough

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• Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Grandmother, Winning

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• Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.

  Kerri Walsh

  Beer, People, Competition

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• I have been dubbed 'the girl who puts the glamour into hammer'

  Sophie Hitchon

  Girl, London Olympics, Hammers

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• So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Warrior, Opponents, Defeat

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

  Jack Ramsay

  Running, Stars, Team

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• Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice.

  Paul Brown

  Practice, Coaches, Knows

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• Luck is being ready for the chance.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Inspirational, Luck, Chance

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