Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 33

• You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• You can never have enough talent.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Sports, Coaching

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• If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Sports, Coaching

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• It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.

  Harry Sinden

  Success, Sports, Volleyball

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• First master the fundamentals.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Sports, Self Motivation

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• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Journey

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Sports, Teamwork

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• The hardest victory is the victory over self.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Sports, Self

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.

  Phil Jackson

  Motivational, Sports, Mistake

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• Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

  Anson Dorrance

  Sports, Volleyball, Player

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• I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field.

  Larry Gelwix

  Motivational, Strength, Being Strong

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• For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Sports, Choices

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• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

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• Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. But it does have everything to do with having the vision to dream, the courage to recover from adversity and the determination never to be shifted from your goals.

  Kieren Perkins

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

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• Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualization. And I think that that helped me to get a feel of what it was gonna be like when I got there. I knew that I had done everything that I could to get ready for that meet, both physically and mentally

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Exercise

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• I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• I can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure on myself, it's just the belief I have in myself......I'm not going to limit myself by nominating times or anything like that. I never thought I'd do 14:34 and I did. I thought I'd maybe do 14:38 or 14:39 that day, and I went nearly five seconds quicker so I don't want to limit the possibilities

  Grant Hackett

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• Body does what mind prefers.

  Lenny Krayzelburg

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

  Ian Thorpe (2012). “This Is Me: The Autobiography”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

  Summer Sanders

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it!

  Petria Thomas

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Before every shot, I go to the movies

  Jack Nicklaus

  Motivational, Sports, Creative Visualization

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• The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

  Rod Laver

  Sports, Games, Competition

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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