Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 18

• Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

  Robert J. LeRoy

  Motivational, Baseball, Men

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• If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Thinking

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Sports, Men

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• Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

  Lewis Mumford

  Sports, Order, Skills

  "Technics and Civilization" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 6, (sct. 11), 1934.

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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Business, Children

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• There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

  Roland Barthes

  Sports, Wrestling, Thinking

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Beach, Bodybuilding

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• The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts-not always trying to show off what you have. You talk less about it. It's like you have a little BMW - you want to race the hell out of this car, because you know it's just going 110. But if you see guys driving a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, they slide around at 60 on the freeway because they know if they press on that accelerator they are going to go 170. These things are the same in every field.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Running, Bodybuilding

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• The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Football, Athlete

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• You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Littles

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• Onstage I'm always different than offstage. I can be very friendly offstage, but onstage I will pull one trick after another on my competition to wipe him out, you know-because it's my living and I have to win. Franco is my best friend, but I will do as much as I can to make him look bad and make me look good.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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• My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

  "Arnold is legendary for body, politics in Iraq". staugustine.com. October 22, 2003.

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• Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• I'll be back always sounded a little girly to me.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Girly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Country

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2013). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• I was always dreaming about very powerful people. Dictators and things like that. I was always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years. Even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Dream, Jesus

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger's womanising ways return to haunt him" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2011.

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• When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

  Tony DiCicco

  Sports, Writing, Goal

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• When I got cut from the varsity team as a sophomore in high school, I learned something. I knew I never wanted to feel that bad again. I never wanted to have that taste in my mouth, that hole in my stomach. So I set a goal of becoming a starter on the varsity.

  Michael Jordan

  Sports, Team, School

  "I Can’t Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan, 1994.

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• The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Responsibility, Care

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.35, Crown Business

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• A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Team, Goal

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.154, Crown Business

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• All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Sports, Goal

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• With goals you can create the future in advance.

  Tony Robbins

  Sports, Goal

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• A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year...and under-estimate what he can do in five.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Sports, Men, Years

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• Good is the enemy of great.

  James C. Collins

  Sports, Life Changing, Inspiration

  "Good To Great And The Social Sectors". Book by James C. Collins, 2005.

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