Sports Quotes - Page 9

• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Humble

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2009

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• If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

  George Brett

  Softball, Motivation, Grandmother

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• I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

  Jason Kidd

  Teamwork, Witty, Stupid

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• Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Graduation

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• If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Positive, Graduation

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

  Al McGuire

  Leadership, Basketball, War

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• I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Winning, Will To Win, Knows

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• A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Quilts, Track

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

  Mario Andretti

  Motivational, Football, Opportunity

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

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• The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

  Red Smith

  Years, Two, Wipe

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  For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

  Emmitt Smith

  Inspirational, Football, Dream

  "Rice, Smith lead star-studded Class of 2010" by Vinnie Iyer, www.sportingnews.com. August 06, 2010.

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• The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

  Marc Parent

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Running

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• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Confidence

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Winning, Nascar Racing, Wrecks

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  I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

  Mia Hamm

  Volleyball, Cheerleading, Business

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• Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Funny, Volleyball

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Apr 30, 2010

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• When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

  Billie Jean King

  Successful, Young, Surveys

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 18, 2010

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• The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

  Bob Lemon

  Friendship, Baseball, Strong

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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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• If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Holiday, Memorable

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [226]

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• They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

  Al Attles

  Defense, Four, Way

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