Athletic Quotes - Page 3

• I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

  Donovan Bailey

  Jobs, Successful, Opportunity

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• There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

  Donna Lopiano

  Opportunity, Ice Cream, Golden

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  Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Congratulations

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• Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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  There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

  Derek Jeter

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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• The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Sports, Health, Athlete

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  A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Athlete, Hockey

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• I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things

  Shannon Miller

  "Chat: Shannon Miller". Interview with Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

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• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Dog

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  Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

  Clark Kerr

  Education, Sex, Learning

  Quoted in Time, 17 Nov. 1958

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• For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

  Avery Brundage

  Art, Games, Long

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  I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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• Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Infancy Is

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• A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Fall

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• Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

  Ara Parseghian

  Motivational, Sports, Teamwork

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• The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

  Ken Doherty

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Success, Dance

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 17, 2014

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• Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

  Ted Williams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Ben Hogan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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