Sports Spirit Quotes - Page 2

• If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

  Herschel Walker

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  Herschel Walker (1989). “Herschel Walker's Basic Training”, Main Street Books

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• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

  Joe Paterno

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  Bruce Jenner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no such thing as life in-between.

  Pat Riley

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Football, Determination

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• Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• The principle is competing against yourself.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

  Don Coryell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

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• How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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• Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

  Charlie Finley

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

  Gale Sayers

  Sports, Football, Determination

  Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”

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• My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

  Carl Lewis

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

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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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• The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

  O. J. Simpson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

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

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

  Jean-Claude Killy

  Leadership, Sports, Volleyball

  Jean Claude Killy, Michael Halstead (1978). “Situation Skiing”, Doubleday Books

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

  Lou Brock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Confidence, Football

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• It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Faith, Sports

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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• The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

  George P. Shultz

  Softball, Sports, Volleyball

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