Athlete Quotes - Page 33

• I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.

  Bum Phillips

  Schedules, Houston

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• Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

  Vince Lombardi

  Smart, Heart, Player

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• Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, President, Riding

  Harry S. Truman (1987). “Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of trial and hope”, Da Capo Pr

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• Conceit is God's gift to little men.

  Bruce Barton

  Conceited, Men, Ego

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• The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

  Mia Hamm

  Player, Competition, Important

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• Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

  Mia Hamm

  Sports, Motivation, Self Esteem

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• Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

  Chris Evert

  Meaningful, Skills, Competition

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• When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

  Ozzie Smith

  Thinking, Competition, Groove

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

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• Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Motivational, Leadership, Girl

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• I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous.

  Sidney Crosby

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

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• Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

  Katarina Witt

  Support, Trying, Helping

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• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Fitness, Bodybuilding

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• I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.

  Aly Raisman

  Gymnastics, Thinking, Pushing

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• My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

  Venus Williams

  Motto, My Motto, Happens

  "Tennis star Venus Williams". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 16, 2010.

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• When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Motivational, Sports, Fall

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• We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

  Kerri Walsh

  Fighting, Crunch, Ends

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• To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.

  Shawn Johnson

  Doubt, Weakness, Body

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• I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

  Lou Holtz

  Success, Sports, Adversity

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• The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds a moment to emerge in the game.

  Timothy Shriver

  Success, Sports, Games

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• The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

  Aimee Mullins

  Success, Sports, Body

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• Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.

  Magic Johnson

  Success, Sports, Attitude

  Earvin "Magic" Johnson, William Novak (2012). “My Life”, p.49, Random House

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• If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.

  Meredith Rainey-Valmon

  Success, Sports, Leap Of Faith

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• When you need a friend, you can always count on your teammates.

  Jim Brown

  Success, Sports, Needs

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• To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.

  Dianne Holum

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

  Ted Simmons

  Success, Sports, Greed

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