Motivational Inspirational Sports Quotes - Page 5

The principle is competing against yourself.

Steve Young

Motivational, Sports, Football

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Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.

Jack LaLanne

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

"Jack LaLanne Dies: Who the Fitness Guru Really Was" by John Robbins, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2011.

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Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

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If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Basketball, Running

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

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The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Jerry Barber

Sports, Volleyball, Golf

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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.

Venus Williams

Sports, Attitude, Athlete

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Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

Willie Mays

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Vince Lombardi

Motivational, Sports, Football

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A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

Mary Lou Retton

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Michael Jordan

Basketball, Sports, Fun

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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Ross Perot

Motivational, Strength, Success

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Hank Aaron

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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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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You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Will Durant

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Bruce Jenner

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Larry Bird

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Bear Bryant

Inspirational, Sports, Meaningful

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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Football, Inspirational Sports, Determination

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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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