Athlete Quotes - Page 37

• It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Fun

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• Just do what you do best.

  Red Auerbach

  Strength, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Sports, Winning

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• Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Sports, Want

  "The Observer Effect". www.sbs.com.au. September 22, 2013.

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• Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Sports, Wrestling

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• I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

  Chris Evert

  Girl, Giving, People

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• There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.

  Zola Budd

  Couple, Trouble

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• I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  FaceBook post by Nadia Comaneci from Apr 24, 2014

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• It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

  Virginia Wade

  Character, People, Crunch

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• A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

  Tom Seaver

  Baseball, Boys, Player

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• I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.

  Libby Trickett

  Sports, Thinking, Psychology

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Humanity, Growth

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• I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.

  Claire Carver-Dias

  Success, Teamwork, Sports

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• Nobody's more important than the team.

  Rejean Houle

  Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Hockey

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• When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

  Bill Shoemaker

  Motivational, Sports, Funny Inspirational

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• The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

  Eddie Reese

  Motivational, Sports, Fighting

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• Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Sports, Sweat, Smell

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• If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

  Gene Stallings

  People, Giants, Like You

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• I'm seldom right, but I'm never in doubt.

  Gene Stallings

  Doubt

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• The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Play, Effort, Quality

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• The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.

  Henry Russell Sanders

  Lying, Broken, Finishing

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• We will win with character, not with characters.

  Bob Weltlich

  Character, Winning, We Will Win

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• The way to stay popular as a quarterback in the NFL is never to play.

  Cliff Stoudt

  Play, Nfl, Way

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• You ought to go to the Wizard of Oz and ask him for some courage.

  Thomas Henderson

  Wizards, Ought, Asks

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• What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

  Greg Maddux

  Motivational Sports, Pitching, Happens

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