Young Athletes Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• [Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them that they're terrible at their profession, they hope they lose their next match or fight.It's hugely negative and unless you can rise above it and pay no attention, it can have a very serious impact on that person's state of mind.

  David Haye

  Home, Athlete, Fighting

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• If you're tweeting - and this is what I tell the young athletes who come to me about these situations, because I've been through them and I've seen both sides of it - if you're tweeting just because everyone else is tweeting and you're not uncomfortable, if it doesn't feel like a sacrifice - like when I wore that T-shirt it was a sacrifice.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Athlete, Sacrifice, Sides

  "People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

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• The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality.

  Rafael Nadal

  Athlete, Personality, Mature

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.

  Jim Courier

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

  Dan O'Brien

  Fun, Athlete, Winning

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• I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn. ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up.

  Dan Marino

  Growing Up, Athlete, Thinking

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• Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future.

  Pat Williams

  Children, Teaching, Athlete

  Source: nerdreactor.com

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• The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

  Zig Ziglar

  Athlete, Greatness, Numbers

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• I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Sports, Philosophy, Athlete

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• I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Athlete, Priorities

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• I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

  Bela Karolyi

  Athlete, Growth, Watches

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• No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Athlete, Athletic

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• I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Dream, Sorry

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• After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

  Cobi Jones

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

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• Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Athlete, Self

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• It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Stars, Athlete, Natural Talent

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• These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Sports, Athlete, Temptation

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• The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Sports, Athlete

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• One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

  Chuck Knox

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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• One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

  Jessica Ennis

  Athlete, Thinking, Winning

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• One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.

  Meryl Davis

  Mom, Athlete, Giving

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