Inspirational Sports Quotes - Page 17

• I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.

  Mark Occhilupo

  Sports, Believe, Thinking

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• I'm pretty superstitious, I want to do everything right, get my routine right, and I wait for waves. I kinda try to sense the ocean coming together for me.

  Mark Occhilupo

  Sports, Ocean, Waiting

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• I think when you have a disability people are always putting limitations on you, telling you, even in a nice way, what you can't do. My attitude to that has always been: You can't tell me that. I'll show you.

  Louise Sauvage

  Sports, Attitude, Nice

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• Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

  George Will

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

  George F. Will (1999). “Bunts”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  Bruce Jenner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.

  Leisel Jones

  Sports, Good Friend, Three

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• I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour.

  Lionel Rose

  Sports, Winning, Differences

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• You're never a loser until you quit trying.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I always thought records were there to be broken.

  Michael Schumacher

  Sports, Broken, Records

  "Michael Schumacher 'pretty happy' if Sebastian Vettel breaks records" by Andrew Benson, www.bbc.com. September 4, 2013.

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• You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

  Homer Rice

  Motivational, Inspiring, Teamwork

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• I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.

  Lincoln Hall

  Sports, Climbing, Judgement

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• If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

  Bruce Fordyce

  Success, Firsts, Succeed

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• With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity.

  Donald Horne

  Sports, Drinking, Beer

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• I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Player

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• The principle is competing against yourself.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Believe, Motivational Workout

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• NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Men

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• It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

  Arnold Palmer

  Funny, Sports, Golf

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Motivational Sports, Determination

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

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• There is a timelessness about sport. Like music and art, it is a quality that cuts across generations and nations. It provides a link between Australians of succeeding generations whether urging on a Donald Bradman or cheering and rejoicing in the America's Cup victory. Call it the spirit, the soul of sport - it will be in 2001 the same as it was in 1901.

  Greg Hartung

  Sports, Art, Cheer

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• In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

  Henry Lawson

  Sports, Hero, Land

  Henry Lawson (1967). “Collected Verse: 1885-1900”

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• When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone.

  Harry Beitzel

  Sports, Eye, Doubt

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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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• Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Sports, Spiritual

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• I love winning and any team I'm on, I expect to win.

  Landon Donovan

  Sports, Team, Winning

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