Inspirational Sports Quotes - Page 7

• But the tricks I use are ones that will hopefully benefit the team.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Team

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• Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Moving, Winning

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• It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Running, Looks

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• I'd like to try to inspire the youth, that's obviously where our future is and the kids are the ones you can mould and you can give them ideas and opportunities and I'd like to try to inspire all the young kids because I had a dream when I was young, that was to play for Australia.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Dream, Kids

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• Some people have like a certain person, when they're around they get like a gnarly energy. I see it in other people, if a certain person's around they compete really well or something like that. I think it's sort of like that.

  Mick Fanning

  Sports, Thinking, Gnarly

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• I think it's just really made me appreciate life more. I've known people die before that and I was really rattled by it but when it hit so close to home ... it was just so different. I just thought about what I really wanted to do. I want to be a pro surfer and that's what I'm going to do.

  Mick Fanning

  Sports, Home, Thinking

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• I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'

  Shirley Strickland

  Sports, Champion, Firsts

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• Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Rain, Weather

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• It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

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• You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

  James Lane Allen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Australia, Surfing

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• I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it was possible.

  Taj Burrow

  Sports, Ideas, Trying

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• I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

  Steven Bradbury

  Sports, Thinking, Race

  "The Joy of Six: the Winter Olympics" by Russell Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Waves are fascinating, the way they are created by wind far out at sea and groomed by different winds as they come closer to shore. We surfers ride the very last part of the wave's life before it crashes and disappears, never to be seen again.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Wind, Sea

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• I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered.

  Shane Gould

  Sports, Blessed, Australia

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• The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to give the public my interpretation of its character in the same way that a pianist might interpret the works of Beethoven.

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Character, Games

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• You can't put a limit anything.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Cheerleading, Athlete

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• The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken

  Tommy Woodcock

  Sports, Broken, Purpose

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  I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Losing's a great motivator.

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Losing

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• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• I want to consistently play well and win titles. I'm only at the beginning.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Winning, Play

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• People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18 I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  "In his own words: Ronaldo reveals all about Ferguson, his football dreams and his future". Interview with Bruno Prata, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

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

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• Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Leadership, Football

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