Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 29

• I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

  Humphry Davy

  Sports, Mistake, Enough Chances

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• I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Hate, Sick

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.179, Crown Business

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• Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

  Bryan Adams

  Inspirational, Sports, Opportunity

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• Nobody's taller than the last man standing

  LaMichael James

  Sports, Men, Lasts

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• The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• Like they say, it ain't over 'til the fat guy swings

  Darren Daulton

  Sports, Swings, Guy

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• Do you believe in miracles?

  Al Michaels

  Sports, Volleyball, Believe

  Television broadcast of Olympic hockey game, 24 Feb. 1980

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• What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sports, Teammate, Lost

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• Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Sports, Dream, Believe

  Kristi Yamaguchi (1998). “Always Dream”, Taylor Pub

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• Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

  Lasse Viren

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• The first ninety minutes are the most important.

  Bobby Robson

  Sports, Important, Firsts

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• Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Sports, Foundation

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• The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Team

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• The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.

  Lyn St. James

  Sports, World, Want

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• A successful coach is one who is still coaching.

  Ben Schwartzwalder

  Sports, Successful, Coaching

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• I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball

  "10 Confessions Even Less Shocking Than Floyd Landis's" by Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.

  Anna Sewell

  Sports, Hurt, Horse

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.6, Mind Melodies

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• People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

  Martina Navratilova

  Girl, Sports, Athlete

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

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• Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

  Ouida

  Sports, Men, Feelings

  Ouida (1901). “Critical Studies”

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• Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

  Bill Tilden

  Sports, Art, Winning

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• We were over-whelming underdogs.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Sports, Coaching

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.29, Workman Publishing

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• Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game.

  Anson Dorrance

  Motivational, Sports, Strong

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• One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how great she is. By the time she's a high school freshman, she starts to believe it. By her senior year, she's fizzled out. Then there's her counterpart: the girl waiting in the wings who quietly and with determination decides she's going to make something of herself. Invariably, this humble, hardworking girl is the one who becomes the real player.

  Anson Dorrance

  Girl, Senior, Sports

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• If you lose your integrity, you've lost everything.

  Larry Gelwix

  Motivational, Sports, Integrity

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• ...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

  B. C. Forbes

  Sports, Adventure, Destiny

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