Favorite Sports Quotes

• Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

  Ross Perot

  Motivational, Strength, Success

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• Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

  Matt Biondi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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• Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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• If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

  Mark Spitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

  Mike Singletary

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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  If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Running

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

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

  Pele

  Sports, Inspiration, Athlete

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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'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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  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

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  Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Sports

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  You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

  Pete Rose, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Pete Rose on hitting: how to hit better than anybody”, Perigee

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• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

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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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• Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

  Bear Bryant

  Softball, Sports, Football

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• You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.

  Bill Peterson

  Funny, Circles, Guy

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• During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Mean

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

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• I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

  Greg Norman

  Sports, Mother, Father

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

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• A tie is like kissing your sister.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Softball, Sports, Football

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• I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

  John Daly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

  Pele

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

  "SI Flashback: Soccer's Greatest Genius". Sports Illustrated, June 01, 1999.

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