Inspirational Sports Quotes - Page 4

• Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

  Lorraine Moller

  Sports, Running, Spiritual

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• Coffee doesn't do it for me; it's running that gets me going.

  Joan Benoit

  Sports, Running, Strong Women

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• Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Anger, Hockey

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• If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 19, 2013

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• Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

  Burt Lancaster

  Sports, Champion, Feelings

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• Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.

  Jim Courier

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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  Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

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• You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

  Chris Evert

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

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  Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Determination

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• Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

  Chris Bradford

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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• When we understand the privilege of what it means to be an athlete, we are in touch with, and rejoice in, our physical, mental, and emotional strengths and our endless possibilities.

  Gloria Averbuch

  Athlete, Mean, Emotional

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

  Ronnie Lott

  Graduation, Sports, Football

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• My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Games, Feelings

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• Competition is great for everyone. Sports can teach you so much at an early age, including camaraderie and sportsmanship. Competition aspect is something I've always been big on - I always wanted to compete in something. It was swimming for many years, then I moved on to basketball. I had to find a way to channel my competitive energy, so I'm lucky that basketball worked out for me.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Sports, Swimming

  Interview with Josh Staph, www.stack.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

  Nelson Mandela

  Sports, Overcoming, Division

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• It's not where you start but where you finish.

  April Heinrichs

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

  George Will

  Sports, Appreciation, School

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Confidence

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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  You have to have fear in order to have courage.

  Ronda Rousey

  Order, Have Courage

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Never buy gold, simply earn it

  Mary Kom

  Gold

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• That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Motivational, Basketball, Girl

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  Good is not good when better is expected.

  Vin Scully

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivational Sports

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• In war there is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Memorial Day, Motivational Sports, Military

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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