Inspirational Sports Quotes - Page 13

• The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes.

  Peter Singer

  Sports, Athlete, Drug Use

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.323, Princeton University Press

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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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• Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

  Pele

  Motivational, Success, Soccer

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• I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

  David Beckham

  Sports, Running, Past

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• You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  FaceBook post by Michael Phelps from Jan 19, 2012

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• If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak.

  Raelene Boyle

  Sports, Team, Winning

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• The hardest part of your journey to success will be telling people your crazy dreams and ideas. But I've found as soon as you say your dreams aloud, many people will come to your side and help guide your journey in the right direction. During my 30 year journey with my disease I have discovered that you will always be surrounded by help, support and light if you stay positive in spite of hardships.

  Karni Liddell

  Sports, Dream, Crazy

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• It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

  Peter Porter

  Sports, Proud, Innocence

  Peter Porter (1961). “Once bitten, twice bitten: poems”

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• Let the smokers and the gluttons die... and leave the living to us who know how to use it.

  Percy Cerutty

  Sports, Use, Know How

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• I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to win. If you are out to win you are better not wanting to know your opponent, much less grow to like him - and wish him, honestly success over you. I have never functioned that way.

  Percy Cerutty

  Sports, Winning, Over You

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• If you want to do something, anything, with all your heart, you will find a way.

  Pat Farmer

  Sports, Heart, Want

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• 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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• Sometimes things just happen. Sometimes surfing this bank from Snapper to Kirra, sometimes you don't even think what you're doing but you do it anyway ... You get to the end of a wave and go, what did I do? Sometimes you go into a totally different state of mind.

  Mick Fanning

  Sports, Thinking, Surfing

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• Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.

  Karni Liddell

  Sports, People, Want

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

  Fiona Wood

  Sports, Education, Book

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• Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

  Jesse Ventura

  Wrestling, Winning, Wwe

  Jesse Ventura (2008). “Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!: From the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to the Baja Outback : Reflections and Revisionings”, Skyhorse Publishing Company Incorporated

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• The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Journey, Balls

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

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• I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Athlete

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• I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

  Bob Lemon

  Baseball, Mlb, Long

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• When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

  Katarina Witt

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

  Carl Lewis

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

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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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• When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Mark Vancil, reprints.longform.org. May, 1992.

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