Inspirational Sports Quotes - Page 16

• I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.

  Dawn Fraser

  Sports, Training, Lasts

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• Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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• 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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• 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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• The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Athlete, Adversity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". 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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• If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

  Michael Owen

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Facts, Bowlers

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

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• I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Winning, Toss

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

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• I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.

  Lionel Rose

  Sports, Country, Dad

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• Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

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• Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.

  Mia Freedman

  Sports, Country, Teacher

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• You've always got to be aware of why you don't win; otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistake again.

  Layne Beachley

  Sports, Mistake, Winning

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• The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

  Kevin Hart

  Sports, Tweed, Tarot

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• What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

  Don Zimmer

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

  Duncan Armstrong

  Sports, Dream, Wall

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• It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

  Joel Parkinson

  Sports, Thinking, Surfing

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• When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Sports, Dream, Hard Work

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• If you do what you did yesterday you'll be beaten. If you do today what others are doing you'll be competitive. To win you much be doing today what others will be doing tomorrow.

  Robert de Castella

  Sports, Winning, Yesterday

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• Fair-goes are not only for oneself, but for underdogs. Even in international sporting matches Australians have been known to switch from their own side to that of a gallant challenger. Australians love a 'battler', an underdog who is fighting the top dog, although their veneration for him is likely to pass if he comes out from under.

  Donald Horne

  Sports, Dog, Fighting

  Donald Horne (1966). “The Lucky Country: Australia in the Sixties”

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• I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

  Layne Beachley

  Sports, Champion, World

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• I still get the feeling I got when I started, that's why I'm still doing it after all these years, I still get that full adrenalin rush before I compete.

  Mark Occhilupo

  Sports, Years, Feelings

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