Great Athlete Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Athlete, Reality

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• It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

  Evander Holyfield

  Motivational, Sports, Volleyball

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• The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

  Pele

  Sports, Inspiration, Athlete

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• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Success, Dance

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 17, 2014

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• Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

  Lynn Jennings

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Pain

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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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• Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

  Eric Heiden

  Baseball, Athlete, Golf

  "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

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• That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

  Armstrong Williams

  Athlete, Giving, Perfection

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• I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

  George J. Mitchell

  Sports, Brother, Athlete

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• Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

  Major Taylor

  Father, Athlete, Winning

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• Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

  Percy Cerutty

  Athlete, Destiny, People

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• Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes in space making plays and that's when the game becomes beautiful. You have spacing and skill and coaching. It's all synergetic. You don't have to be a basketball fan to appreciate that. You can be a person who appreciates movement. It's almost like a ballet at that point.

  Shane Battier

  Basketball, Beautiful, Soccer

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. The Seven Faces of Intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance, and receptivity. And all seven are expressions of what I imagine that source to look like. The very fact that we exist is proof to me that the nature of that source is creative at its core. And there isn't a person reading this who does not have a gnawing sense inside that there's something they're here to do, something creative.

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Reading, Creativity

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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• Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

  Judd Apatow

  Athlete, School, Comedian

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.

  Jim Courier

  Basketball, Running, Athlete

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

  Emanuel Steward

  Athlete, Men, Dancer

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• There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Athlete, Work Out, Shapes

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• Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Gary Sheide: The image of Joe Namath. He even had Joe's number. Had just a great feel and touch for the game. A great athlete who could play all the sports. He was more of a streak guy than any of them. He could miss two or three passes and then get hot and hit ten straight. He was the one who got it all started.

  LaVell Edwards

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

  Usain Bolt

  Athlete, Phenomenon

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

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• I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends and I want all my friends to be different. I want to play six instruments. I want to be the best in the world at two things. I want to be a great athlete and I want to be a great surgeon. I need to practice very hard every day. I need to sleep as little as possible. I need to read at least one major book every week. And I need to remember that my seventy years are going to go by too quickly.

  Diana Nyad

  Country, Book, Athlete

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