Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 20

• I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

  Alberto Tomba

  Sports, Thinking, Today

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• When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Past

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• I don't think you're ever there. You never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you're already there. Can't get any better. And as players, if you ever have that moment - you should never have that moment. You're always trying to get better.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Sports, Player

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• You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

  John McGraw

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Simple

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• We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Prayer

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Team

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• Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

  John McGraw

  Sports, Hurt, Men

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• If you're not nervous, it means you don't care.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Sports, Mean

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• If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Football, Cheating

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Sports, Moments

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Sports, Men

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• Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

  Vin Scully

  Sports, Funny Baseball, Knees

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• I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

  Tug McGraw

  Sports, Alcohol, Drug

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• A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word I when you're in a group makes things complicated.

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo

  Sports, Player, Squad

  "The Brazilians are coming... to Wales and England" by Brian Homewood, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2000.

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• To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Sports, Thinking, Cash

  1823 Letter to R B Haydon, 24 Aug.

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• I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

  Rob Lee

  Sports, Heart, Boys

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• The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

  Neville Cardus

  Sports, Order, Umpires

  Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.149, Souvenir Press

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• It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Sarcastic, Past

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  Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• Losing is the great American sin.

  Jerome Holtzman

  Sports, Losing, Great American

  Jerome Holtzman (1978). “No Cheering in the Press Box”

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• The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Essence, Important

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• If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Sports, Boxing, Tennis

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