Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 19

• Winners are not born, they are self-made.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Self, Winner

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.13, Crown Business

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• Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Perspective, Want

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.187, Crown Business

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• I think all of us create our own miracles.

  Michael Landon

  Sports, Thinking, Miracle

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• Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

  Tony DiCicco

  Sports, Responsibility, Empowering

  Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg (2003). “Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls”, p.123, Penguin

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• Don't make excuses, make good.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Failure, Commitment

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

  Don Meyer

  Sports, Winning, Fundamentals

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• Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Hockey, Winning

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• In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

  Joe Montana

  Sports, Eight, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

  Sally Quinn

  Sports, Football, Pain

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• I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.

  Mike Piazza

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• The future is much like the present, only longer.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Inspirational, Sports, Present Future

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• Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Football, Block

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• I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

  Chris Evert

  Sports, Loss, Winning

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• I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Football, Mean

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• Play for the guy standing next to you.

  Matt Abbott

  Sports, Play, Guy

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• Don't dwell on mistakes, because it will only cause more.

  Ned Crotty

  Sports, Mistake, Causes

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• Be fast on the field physically, but play slow mentally. Basically, play hard but play smart.

  Kevin Leveille

  Sports, Smart, Play Hard

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• There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.

  Brendan Mundorf

  Sports, Player, Guy

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• Character is what you do when no one is watching.

  Paul Rabil

  Sports, Character

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• Be cool to the pizza dude.

  Steele Stanwick

  Sports, Being Cool, Pizza

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• Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

  Alan Shearer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

  Thierry Henry

  Sports, Football, Games

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

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• Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

  Pele

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

  "SI Flashback: Soccer's Greatest Genius". Sports Illustrated, June 01, 1999.

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• The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Player, Games

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