Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 26

• Don't go to the grave with life unused.

  Bobby Bowden

  Motivational, Teamwork, Sports

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• Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

  Leo Durocher

  Motivational, Teamwork, Sports

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• The one man team is a complete and total myth.

  Don Shula

  Teamwork, Men, Coaching

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• Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

  Jim Brown

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.

  Red Auerbach

  Success, Sports, Integrity

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• Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

  Nancy Lopez

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Stress, Team

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• When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

  Dick Vitale

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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• Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.

  Brian Owen

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

  Jack Kemp

  Success, Sports, Team

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• I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.

  Althea Gibson

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

  Bob Costas

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination and desire. Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Success, Sports, Determination

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• The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

  Chris Evert

  Success, Sports, Hate

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• Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

  Elgin Baylor

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports.

  Mia Hamm

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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• An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

  Aimee Mullins

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure.

  Roger Staubach

  Success, Sports, Stress

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• Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

  Howie Long

  Sports, Athlete, Character

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• In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Moving, Inspiration

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• My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Inspirational, Fun, Athlete

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