Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 6

• If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

  Ronnie Lott

  Graduation, Sports, Football

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• Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Cycling, Racing

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• I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

  Moses Malone

  Basketball, Sports, Hockey

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• Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

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• Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

  Alistair Cooke

  Sports, Believe, People

  Alistair Cooke (2013). “Golf: The Marvelous Mania”, p.48, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

  Bill Walton

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing

  Pieter van den Hoogenband

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Emotional

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• I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Sports, Team, Play

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• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  John McEnroe

  Funny, Sports, Volleyball

  The Times (London), June 26, 1984.

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• When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Pride, Coaching

  LeRoy Paige, Satchel Paige (1993). “Maybe I'll Pitch Forever”, p.278, U of Nebraska Press

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• Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Team, Commitment

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• Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

  Bart Starr

  Sports, Volleyball, Team

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• There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.

  Nick Saban

  Sports, Focus, Progress

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• The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

  Lawrence Dallaglio

  Sports, Football, Believe

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• It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don't have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• You've never heard of them- and you never will .

  John Wooden

  Sports, Coaching, Heard

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• I never drop a player I only make changes.

  Bill Shankly

  Sports, Player, Coaching

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• You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Sports, Dream

  FaceBook post by Michael Phelps from Jan 19, 2012

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  We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Change, Sports

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