Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 31

• Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

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• When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

  Joe Frazier

  Motivational, Sports, Brother

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• God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

  Reggie White

  Courage, Athlete, Nfl

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• I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

  Mario Balotelli

  Motivational, Sports, Jobs

  "Mario Balotelli, Italy's postman, celebrates first-class delivery" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2012.

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• What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• You have to train your mind like you train your body.

  Bruce Jenner

  Motivational, Inspirational Sports, Athlete

  "The Brain-Training Secrets Of Olympic Athletes" By Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2014.

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• This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

  Olga Korbut

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• Never put an age limit on your dreams.

  Dara Torres

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  "Dara Torres: Don’t put an age limit on your dreams" by Giovanni Castelli, optometrytimes.modernmedicine.com. June 22, 2017.

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• Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

  Mia Hamm

  Sports, Motivation, Self Esteem

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• You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

  Grete Waitz

  Athlete, Competition, Looks

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• It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

  Mort Walker

  Motivational, Success, Sports

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• The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds a moment to emerge in the game.

  Timothy Shriver

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

  Aimee Mullins

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.

  Magic Johnson

  Success, Sports, Attitude

  Earvin "Magic" Johnson, William Novak (2012). “My Life”, p.49, Random House

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• If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.

  Meredith Rainey-Valmon

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• When you need a friend, you can always count on your teammates.

  Jim Brown

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.

  Dianne Holum

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

  Ted Simmons

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Athlete

  Bill Bradley (2009). “Life on the Run”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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• You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

  Jim Bouton

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

  Jim Abbott

  Sports, Baseball, Together

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• People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

  Jim Abbott

  Sports, Attitude, Blessed

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• When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Bodybuilding, Clothes

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• It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Heart

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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