Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 40

• How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?

  Jason Bishop

  Motivational, Sports, Quitting

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• The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.

  Jack Johnson

  Sports, Appreciation, Men

  Jack Johnson (1969). “Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography”

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• Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Sports, Fun, Reality

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• I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Play

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

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• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sacrifice

  "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.

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• You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Emotional, Play

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• I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2011

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• It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2009

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• I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Greatness, Boxing

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2015

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• Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Winning

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• There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Analysis, Syndromes

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• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Sports, Laughter

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 57 (1813)

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• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Leadership, Sports, Power

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• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Success, Attitude

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

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• As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

  Usain Bolt

  Long, Shapes, Beats

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Sports, Health, Athlete

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• Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

  John F. Kennedy

  Football, Political, Daylight

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• Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

  Charles Lamb

  Sports, War, Games

  Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]”, p.45

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• Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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  Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  Abe Lemons

  School, Doctors, League

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• Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Artist, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Feb 18, 2015

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• Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Success, Softball

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• Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Success, Football

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