Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 16

• The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Motivational, Success, Football

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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• Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

  Bruce Pearl

  Sports, Volleyball, Hard Work

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• There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

  Lolo Jones

  Hard Work, Athlete, Track

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• Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

  Ron Brown

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Attitude

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• You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

  Homer Rice

  Motivational, Inspiring, Teamwork

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• I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody.

  Kenyon Martin

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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• The Most Important Thing I Know About the Spirit of Sport... It instills in us the ability to recognize and appreciate the talents of others as well as the gifts we have been given and the ability to work with others as a team. It also allows us to face the challenge of competition, learn from our successes and failures, altogether making us true champions in life.

  Dot Richardson

  Success, Sports, Team

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• I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

  Alberto Tomba

  Sports, Thinking, Today

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• Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Success, Sports, Passion

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• In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don't.

  Dot Richardson

  Success, Softball, Sports

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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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• Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.

  Vincent Matthews

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• Strive to be the best you can be...focus, watch, listen, and learn. Try never to be satisfied with 'good enough'...and above all, love what you do-share that passion with others, and always stay humble. Nobody likes a 'big head' no matter how good you are.

  Robby Naish

  Success, Softball, Sports

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• It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

  Arthur Calwell

  Success, Sports, Honesty

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• It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.

  Bob Hayes

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

  Bob Cousy

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Player, Games

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• Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Happiness, Discipline, People

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.198

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• Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Running

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• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Confidence, Football

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• I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

  John McEnroe

  Success, Sports, Self Confidence

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• It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

  Tony DiCicco

  Dream, Courage, Realizing

  Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg (2003). “Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls”, p.67, Penguin

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• If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

  Kurt Warner

  Football, Dream, Courage

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