Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 24

• Play with no fear of failure.

  Max Seibald

  Sports, Play, No Fear

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• It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

  John Bentley

  Sports, Men, Games

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• He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sports, Heart, Boxing

  Forbes, 2007.

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• Have fun, because that's what life is all about.

  Ryan Lochte

  Motivational, Fun, Athlete

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• I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.

  Camille Duvall

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  Camille Duvall, Nancy Crowell (1992). “Camille Duvall's Instructional Guide to Water Skiing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

  Mamie McCullough

  Sports, Dirt

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• A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

  Terry Orlick

  Sports, Loss, Excellence

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• Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

  Terry Orlick

  Sports, Silver Platter, Hands

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• In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances.

  Terry Orlick

  Sports, Athlete, Mean

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• It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Spiritual, Mind

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• Take a strong wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as strong. Take a quick wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as quick. Take a technical wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as technical. No matter what kind of wrestler, everyone is afraid of getting tired. It's those who learn to perform when they're tired that find success.

  Jay Robinson

  Sports, Strong, Tired

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  When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

  Lou Gehrig

  Motivational, Sports, Mother

  Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

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• The one that works the hardest comes out on top.

  Debbie Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Hardest

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• There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Sports, Silly, Playing Games

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• When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

  Bill Lee

  Sports, Mind, Church

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• The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Motivational, Sports, Motor Racing

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• My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

  David Beckham

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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• If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Hilarious, Sports

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• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Baseball

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.

  Usain Bolt

  Lazy, Doubt, Yeah

  "Usain Bolt: Fast and loose". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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• I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

  Usain Bolt

  Dedicated

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

  Usain Bolt

  Trying, Bother

  "Usain Bolt: Fast and loose". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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• A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Motivational, Strong, Determination

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• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sports, Integrity, Athlete

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