Athletic Inspirational Quotes - Page 2

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

Graduation, Sports, Football

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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

Jack Dempsey

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

Joe Namath

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

Love, Inspirational, Life

Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

Gordie Howe

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

Laird Hamilton

Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

Ara Parseghian

Motivational, Sports, Teamwork

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Wayne Gretzky

Motivational, Sports, Dog

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The principle is competing against yourself.

Steve Young

Motivational, Sports, Football

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The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Steve Young

Motivational, Change, Sports

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It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

Sandy Lyle

Sports, Funny Inspirational, Golf

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The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Denis Waitley

Motivational, Positive, Success

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To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

Picabo Street

Motivational, Sports, Determination

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The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

Ken Doherty

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Jim Valvano

Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.

Denis Waitley

Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

"It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

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Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

Jerry Rice

Motivational, Success, Sports

"Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.

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You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Pete Rose

Motivational, Sports, Baseball

Pete Rose, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Pete Rose on hitting: how to hit better than anybody”, Perigee

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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, Athlete

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Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Martina Navratilova

Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

Andre Agassi

Inspirational, Inspiring, Sports

Twitter post from Jan 25, 2016

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