Athlete Quotes - Page 25

• Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Years

  Bill Bradley (2009). “Life on the Run”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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• You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

  Jim Bouton

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.

  Red Auerbach

  Success, Sports, Integrity

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• Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

  Nancy Lopez

  Success, Sports, Pride

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• When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Games

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• The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

  Dick Vitale

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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• Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.

  Brian Owen

  Success, Sports, Sleep

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• Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

  Jack Kemp

  Success, Sports, Team

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• I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.

  Althea Gibson

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

  Rudy Tomjanovich

  Basketball, Sports, Motivation

  Rudy Tomjanovich (1997). “A Rocket at Heart: My Life and My Team”

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• The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

  Bob Costas

  Success, Sports, Community

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• My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing.

  Juli Inkster

  Hard Work, Passion, Keys

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• Every runner has a specific motivation and inspiration for running a marathon. This year, all 36,000 of us will 'run together' to demonstrate the spirit of the marathon. We will still have our individual motivations, but we will be unified under the Boston Strong umbrella.

  Meb Keflezighi

  Running, Strong, Motivation

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• You ought to go to the Wizard of Oz and ask him for some courage.

  Thomas Henderson

  Wizards, Ought, Asks

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• What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

  Greg Maddux

  Motivational Sports, Pitching, Happens

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• I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

  Orel Hershiser

  Sports, Perseverance, Giving Up

  Orel Hershiser (1990). “Out of the Blue”, Jove Books

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• I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.

  Erick Barrondo

  Home, Kids, Gun

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• We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.

  Lee Pearson

  Thinking, People, Inspire

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• We all lose sight sometimes, but when we find our way again we are not only 2x stronger but we can see where we need to be, where we should be, and most importantly we understand why we are not there already.

  Ian Warner

  Sight, Stronger, Needs

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• Do not wonder why you are blessed with so much, just understand you have so much so you can help other people have as much as you.

  Ian Warner

  Blessed, Helping Others, People

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• Most people do not know themselves. The real you is not that person you are when times are great, the real you shows when everything goes wrong. Can you hold on, can you keep pushing or do you quit?

  Ian Warner

  Real, People, Pushing

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• It is about what you do when nobody is watching. Can you always stay on your grind, or are you only a star when the lights are on you and everybody is watching?

  Ian Warner

  Stars, Light, Grind

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• Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it's never really over until the whistle blows.

  Alex Morgan

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Fighting

  Alex Morgan (2015). “Breakaway: Beyond the Goal”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my team. I love facing the challenge of another team that's better.

  Jamila Wideman

  Success, Sports, Running

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• The way to stay popular as a quarterback in the NFL is never to play.

  Cliff Stoudt

  Play, Nfl, Way

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