Athlete Quotes - Page 7

• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

  Linford Christie

  Things To Do, Feels, Involved

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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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  What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational Sports, Art, Golf

  Arnold Palmer (2016). “A Life Well Played: My Stories”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports, Golf

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• It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Squares

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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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• Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

  John Madden

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Attitude, Great Tennis

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• Athletics is a luxury.

  Roger Bannister

  Luxury, Athletic, Athletics

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Success, Sports

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• Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

  Babe Ruth

  Motivational Sports, Hero, Legends

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• You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

  Milton Friedman

  Ideas, Understanding, Employment

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• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Determination, Wrestling

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  Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Dream, Mistake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.206, Harvard University Press

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• The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

  Dante Hall

  Teacher, Real, Role Models

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• How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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• Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Player, Work Ethic

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• This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

  Olga Korbut

  Motivational, Sports, Gymnastics

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• I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see".

  Dick Fosbury

  Sports, Successful, Champion

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• Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Worry, Focus

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• When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Motivational, Positivity, Listening

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• You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Games

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• The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

  Peggy Fleming

  Leadership, Sports, Running

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

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