Perseverance Sports Quotes

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

Pele

Motivational, Success, Soccer

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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Basketball, Running

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Julie Andrews

Inspirational, Positive, Success

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

Love, Inspirational, Life

Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

Jerry Rice

Motivational, Success, Sports

"Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.

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Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Hope, Perseverance, Bad Day

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Joe Namath

Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

Joe Namath (1987). “Football for Young Players and Parents”, Fireside

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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Tommy Lasorda

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

Inspirational, Sports, Running

Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Heywood Broun

Inspirational, Sports, Baseball

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

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I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

William James

Running, Dream, Inspirational Sports

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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

"It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Inspirational, Positive, Success

"Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 51), 1888.

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Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Stephen Leacock

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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