Athlete Quotes - Page 26

• We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

  Kerri Walsh

  Fighting, Crunch, Ends

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• To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.

  Shawn Johnson

  Doubt, Weakness, Body

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• I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

  Lou Holtz

  Success, Sports, Adversity

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• The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds a moment to emerge in the game.

  Timothy Shriver

  Success, Sports, Games

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• The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

  Aimee Mullins

  Success, Sports, Body

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• Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.

  Magic Johnson

  Success, Sports, Attitude

  Earvin "Magic" Johnson, William Novak (2012). “My Life”, p.49, Random House

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• If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.

  Meredith Rainey-Valmon

  Success, Sports, Leap Of Faith

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• When you need a friend, you can always count on your teammates.

  Jim Brown

  Success, Sports, Needs

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• To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.

  Dianne Holum

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

  Ted Simmons

  Success, Sports, Greed

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• 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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• It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

  Arthur Calwell

  Success, Sports, Honesty

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• The Most Important Thing I Know About the Spirit of Sport... It instills in us the ability to recognize and appreciate the talents of others as well as the gifts we have been given and the ability to work with others as a team. It also allows us to face the challenge of competition, learn from our successes and failures, altogether making us true champions in life.

  Dot Richardson

  Success, Sports, Team

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• It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.

  Bob Hayes

  Success, Sports, Blood

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• In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser. To be a winner, we must devote time and hard work. To be a loser you do nothing, and that's exactly what you will get, nothing.

  John Patrick Boles

  Success, Sports, Hard Work

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