Great Sports Quotes - Page 5

• You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Football, Determination

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  Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Loyalty, Running

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• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Spring

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

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• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Confidence, Football

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• There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

  Umberto Eco

  Sports, Squash, Flying

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• Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and baseball. Particularly. Not to demean football, but it's a baseball state and a basketball state.

  Jerry Jones

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Change, Sports

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• I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.

  Teri McKeever

  Motivational, Girl, Sports

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• The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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

  Ben Hogan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

  Charlie Finley

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

  Gregg Troy

  Sports, Inspiration, Winning

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• So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.

  Epictetus

  Wine, Exercise, Dust

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• Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

  Tiger Woods

  Basketball, Sports, Sexy

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• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  John Wooden

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

  John Wooden

  Life, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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• Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

  Patrick Kane

  Sports, Games, People

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• Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'.

  Jenny Meadows

  Sports, Athlete, Track

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Great sport has intellectual beauty.

  Rick Carlisle

  Sports, Intellectual

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• The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.

  Edward Ruscha

  Sports, Country, Missing

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• Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.

  Paul Allen

  Sports, Football, Father

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• The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

  Johnny Miller

  Sports, Golf, Aspect

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• You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Sports, Looks, Agents

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• Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Sports, Artist, People

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