Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 38

• Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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• You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the park and have some fun.' Then you get them to do some running, play on the swings, practice on the balance beam, basically get a full workout disguised as play.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Running

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• Success is a project that's always under construction.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Construction, Projects

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.176, Crown Business

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• Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Ambitious, Way

  Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway

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• Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Discipline, Nine

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.78, Crown Business

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• You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

  Christy Mathewson

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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

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• The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Sunset, Winning

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.108, RosettaBooks

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• You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Success, Sports, Mistake

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• The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

  Denis Waitley

  Sports, Communication, Skills

  Denis Waitley (1988). “Being the best”, Pocket

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• If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Impossible Situations, Desire

  Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

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• A good life is a collection of happy memories.

  Denis Waitley

  Sports, Memories, Good Life

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• Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

  Billie Jean King

  Leadership, Sports, Dedication

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• Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Success, Sports, Team

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• The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Sports, Giving

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• Politics is a blood sport.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Sports, Blood, Politics

  Quoted in Jennie Lee My Life with Nye (1980).

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• I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

  Don Shula

  Motivational, Sports, Nfl

  Don Shula (1995). “Everyone's a Coach: You Can Inspire Anyone to be a Winner”, Zondervan

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• Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.

  Tony Horton

  Motivational, Sports, Fall

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  BLOOD, SWEAT & RESPECT. First two you GIVE. Last one you EARN.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Sports, Blood

  Twitter post from Jul 9, 2012

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• I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.

  Charles Barkley

  Mom, Sports, Growing Up

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• When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

  Don Drysdale

  Sports, Screw Ups, World

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• Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.

  Nick Hornby

  Sports, Football, Games

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• Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal.

  Kerri Walsh

  Sports, Fitness, Cheerleading

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• Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

  Andre Agassi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Fun, Thinking

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• The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time for practice, accepting challenges and being fearful of the elements.

  Summer Sanders

  Sports, Team, Practice

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