Athlete Quotes - Page 6

• You have to train your mind like you train your body.

  Bruce Jenner

  Motivational, Inspirational Sports, Mind

  "The Brain-Training Secrets Of Olympic Athletes" By Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Fun

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• When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Mark Vancil, reprints.longform.org. May, 1992.

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• Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

  George Will

  Inspirational, Sports, Athletic

  George F. Will (1999). “Bunts”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

  Jason Kidd

  Teamwork, Sports, Witty

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• What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

  Don Zimmer

  Motivational, Sports, Giving

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• Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Fun, Athletic

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• When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

  Dick Fosbury

  Levels, Competing, Percent

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• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

  Alan Armstrong

  Sports, Running, Character

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• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

  Bob Cousy

  Success, Sports, Discipline

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• Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

  Edwin Moses

  Motivational, Inspirational Sports, Focus And Concentration

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• Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

  Howie Long

  Sports, Character, Commitment

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• I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Fitness, Running

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• Have fun, because that's what life is all about.

  Ryan Lochte

  Motivational, Fun, Swimming

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• As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gymnastics

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• I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

  Linford Christie

  Successful, Thinking, Wells

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• When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

  Katarina Witt

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

  Grete Waitz

  Motivational Sports, Competition, Looks

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• Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Class, Mind, Hey

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• Dancers are the athletes of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Dance, Philosophical, Dancing

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• It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

  Mort Walker

  Motivational, Success, Sports

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• The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Stress, Team

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