Athlete Quotes - Page 6

• Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.

  Terrell Owens

  Funny, Sports, Team

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• If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

  Dick Vermeil

  Inspirational, Sports, Hurt

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• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  John McEnroe

  Funny, Sports, Volleyball

  The Times (London), June 26, 1984.

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• Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• The principle is competing against yourself.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

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

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• You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports, Believe

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• The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

  Plato

  Savages, Too Much, Athletics

  Plato, Justin Kaplan (1951). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• You play with your soul as well as your body.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Play, Competition

  "Ironman champ: Train your brain, then your body" by Chrissie Wellington, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2012.

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• When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

  Dick Fosbury

  Levels, Competing, Percent

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• I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Fitness, Running

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• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

  Howie Long

  Sports, Character, Commitment

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• Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

  Edwin Moses

  Motivational, Inspirational Sports, Focus And Concentration

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• Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

  Bob Cousy

  Success, Sports, Discipline

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• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

  Alan Armstrong

  Sports, Running, Character

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• Have fun, because that's what life is all about.

  Ryan Lochte

  Motivational, Fun, Swimming

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  What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational Sports, Art, Golf

  Arnold Palmer (2016). “A Life Well Played: My Stories”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Squares

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• Dancers are the athletes of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Dance, Philosophical, Dancing

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• You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

  Grete Waitz

  Motivational Sports, Competition, Looks

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• As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gymnastics

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• It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

  Mort Walker

  Motivational, Success, Sports

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• The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Stress, Team

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• I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

  Linford Christie

  Thinking, Talent, Enough

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