Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 27

• The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Just do what you do best.

  Red Auerbach

  Strength, Basketball, Athlete

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• I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• The game isn't over till it's over.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Games, Insightful

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• I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.

  Teri McKeever

  Motivational, Girl, Sports

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• You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Competition

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• Sports is human life in microcosm.

  Howard Cosell

  Sports, Homecoming, Human Life

  HOWARD COSELL (1973). “COSELL”

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• Sport is a preserver of health.

  Hippocrates

  Sports

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• The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

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• An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Sports, Life Lesson, Hard Work

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• Be positive and work hard. I think it's possible to overcome anything, if you're willing to work at it.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Sports, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, New York, Hero

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• Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Golf, Discipline

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• To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

  Seve Ballesteros

  Mean, Golf, Practice

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• My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Dad, Father

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  Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Tommy Lasorda, David Fisher (1986). “The Artful Dodger”, Avon Books

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• To become a champion, fight one more round.

  James Corbitt

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

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• It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

  Charles Kettering

  Cute, Perseverance, Giving Up

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Believe, Hard Work

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• I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.

  Megan Jendrick

  Motivational, Success, Athlete

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• I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

  Amanda Beard

  Motivational, Athlete, Swimming

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• I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Swimming, Limits

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• Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people.

  Marianne Limpert

  Motivational, Athlete, Swimming

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• There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Swimming, Water

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