Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 17

• I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

  John McEnroe

  Success, Sports, Self Confidence

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• It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

  Tony DiCicco

  Dream, Courage, Realizing

  Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg (2003). “Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls”, p.67, Penguin

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• If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

  Kurt Warner

  Football, Dream, Courage

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• If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Courage, Goal

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• We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.

  Mike Tomlin

  Inspirational

  "Steelers Notebook: Turf wars - Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?". The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 22, 2007.

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• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

  Stan Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Confidence

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• In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don't.

  Dot Richardson

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Success, Sports, Passion

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• Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.

  Jim Courier

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.

  Vincent Matthews

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• Strive to be the best you can be...focus, watch, listen, and learn. Try never to be satisfied with 'good enough'...and above all, love what you do-share that passion with others, and always stay humble. Nobody likes a 'big head' no matter how good you are.

  Robby Naish

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody.

  Kenyon Martin

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

  Arthur Calwell

  Success, Sports, Honesty

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• The Most Important Thing I Know About the Spirit of Sport... It instills in us the ability to recognize and appreciate the talents of others as well as the gifts we have been given and the ability to work with others as a team. It also allows us to face the challenge of competition, learn from our successes and failures, altogether making us true champions in life.

  Dot Richardson

  Success, Sports, Team

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• It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.

  Bob Hayes

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

  Bob Cousy

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser. To be a winner, we must devote time and hard work. To be a loser you do nothing, and that's exactly what you will get, nothing.

  John Patrick Boles

  Success, Sports, Hard Work

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• Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they fall short, sharing that journey is an experience they'll never forget. It can teach some of the most fundamental and important human values: dedication, perseverance, hard work, and teamwork. It also teaches us how to handle our success and cope with our failure. So, perhaps the greatest glory of sport is that is teaches us so much about life itself.

  Ahmad Rashad

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.

  Bela Karolyi

  Success, Sports, Lying

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• I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

  Bill Cartwright

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

  Bob Wickman

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Baseball, Real, Winning

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• I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Coaching, Victory

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• The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

  Cus D'Amato

  Running, Attitude, Hero

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