Sports Quotes - Page 2

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

  George P. Shultz

  Softball, Volleyball, Adversity

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• I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

  Scotty Bowman

  Hockey, Winning, Nhl

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

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Baseball, Athlete

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

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• There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

  Mike Penner

  Baseball, League, Littles

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• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage.

  Bear Bryant

  Hurt, Winning, Practice

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.8, Triumph Books

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• You play to win the game.

  Herman Edwards

  Winning, Nfl Players, Games

  News conference, Hempstead, N.Y., 30 Oct. 2002.

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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, Confidence

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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• These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Shoes, Handsome

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• I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Team, Athlete

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• Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

  Bobby Orr

  Growing Up, School, Hockey

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• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

  Emil Zatopek

  Inspirational, Running, Dream

  Quoted by Christopher Brasher in the Observer,12 Sep 1982.

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• A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

  Jack Dempsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teamwork

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

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  Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Players win games, teams win championships.

  Bill Taylor

  Success, Team, Winning

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• The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.

  Todd Blackledge

  Volleyball, Winning, Coaching

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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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• The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

  Arthur Ashe

  Attitude, Athlete, Great Tennis

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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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• It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiration, Athlete

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• Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

  Venus Williams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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  You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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