Inspirational Sports Quotes - Page 12

• Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Motivational Sports, Athlete, Golf

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• The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

  Jean-Claude Killy

  Leadership, Sports, Volleyball

  Jean Claude Killy, Michael Halstead (1978). “Situation Skiing”, Doubleday Books

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• If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Bad Day, Normal

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• Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

  Charlie Finley

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

  Marv Levy

  Sports, Football, Encouragement

  Joeseph Valerio, Marv Levy (2014). “Second to None: The Relentless Drive and the Impossible Dream of the Super Bowl Bills”, p.15, Triumph Books

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• You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

  Paul Brown

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Doctors, Track

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• One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Football, Stars

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• Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Team

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• When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Integrity, Believe

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• There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

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

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• I prefer other people to make judgments about the way I play and to characterize me, rather me describe myself.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Play

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• I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

  Gale Sayers

  Sports, Football, Determination

  Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”

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• Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Sports, Accomplishment

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• But I don't want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Play

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• It gives me the happiest feeling in the world. I just love scoring. It doesn't matter if it's a simple goal from close range, a long shot or a dribble around several players, I just love to score all goals.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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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, Athlete

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• An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

  Emil Zatopek

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Quoted by Christopher Brasher in the Observer,12 Sep 1982.

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• It's an interesting thing in this country. I haven't won a gold medal, yet Australians still take me into their houses and hearts, they know my name and they care. I think Aussies like the little Aussie battler and the person who will stand up for their rights and I've never been short of a word, especially with officialdom.

  Raelene Boyle

  Sports, Country, Heart

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• You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

  Serena Williams

  Positive, Sports, Believe

  "Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap". fortune.com. July 31, 2017.

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• Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

  Mia Hamm

  Girl, Sports, Volleyball

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• I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.

  Steve Waugh

  Airports, Waiting, Bags

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• The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

  John Newcombe

  Sports, Attitude, Mind

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• What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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