Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 30

• In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

  Elka Graham

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.

  Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as you are having fun, but I can say that it becomes much more fun as you get older and learn more about the sport, life, and especially more about yourself

  Scott Goldblatt

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can.... There a few of them ... DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD ...whichever song really gets me going that night

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Song

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• Most of the preparedness happens during training every single day, so it's all about getting to a meet and being as relaxed as possible. Personally, I just try to stay in the crowd of people, just talking so my mind doesn't think only about swimming. That helps me to relax. And at this level, we all know what needs to be done once we jump in the pool

  Lenny Krayzelburg

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Rap

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• Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind of expecting things to happen but I don't know who from. I think it's kind of silly but I'm prepared for it. I'd probably just laugh it off because it means that they are afraid of racing me, so it's like a huge compliment

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Silly

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• It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm lucky to be that way

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer I am', so let's change it completely and say 'Look, I've got to learn to love myself'. And that's been a really hard thing to do because when you've done a performance that you're not proud of and the public and the media have criticized you.....people are really quick to make judgements so it was tough to say 'Well I don't care what you have to say. I'm going to do this for myself and if you don't like me after this, well then, it's too bad'.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

  Libby Trickett

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

  Jade Edmistone

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• I've just been enjoying the training a bit more. I've put too much pressure on myself in the past. Just relax and let it come. I just went out there to have a bit of fun tonight.

  Sophie Edington

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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• If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Workout

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• Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Weight Loss, Perfect

  79 Copy quote

• Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Basketball, Ucla

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• Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Volleyball, Wisdom

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• When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

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  Good is not good when better is expected.

  Vin Scully

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Athlete

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• What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

  Don Zimmer

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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