Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 35

• Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Funny Sports, Church

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  You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

  William Feather

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

  Frank Gifford

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

  Scott Hamilton

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

  Scott Hamilton (2009). “The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (even when you have every reason to be miserable)”, p.93, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

  Mia Hamm

  Sports, Volleyball, Cheerleading

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• I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Sacrifice

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• True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

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• You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

  Mia Hamm

  Sports, Volleyball, Team

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• There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Adversity, College

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• The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Humor

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• If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Volleyball

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2011

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• I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Team

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• In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Mean, Inspirational Soccer

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• Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

  George Mikes

  Sports, Thinking, Cricket Match

  1946 How to be an Alien.

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• When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

  Jose Mourinho

  Motivational, Soccer, Games

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

  John Henry Newman

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Men

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• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Jealousy, Sports, War

  "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)

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• Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Friendship, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

  Camille Paglia

  Sports, Art, Nature

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

  Arnold Palmer

  Motivational, Sports, Discovery

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Apr 09, 2017

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• Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

  Fred Perry

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sports

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  If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, People, Champion

  "Michael Phelps: 'I consider myself normal'" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Swimming, Compliments You

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