Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 17

• Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

  Vin Scully

  Sports, Funny Baseball, Knees

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• The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Sports, Men

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• Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

  Lewis Mumford

  Sports, Order, Skills

  "Technics and Civilization" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 6, (sct. 11), 1934.

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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Business, Children

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• The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

  Neville Cardus

  Sports, Order, Umpires

  Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.149, Souvenir Press

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• A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word I when you're in a group makes things complicated.

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo

  Sports, Player, Squad

  "The Brazilians are coming... to Wales and England" by Brian Homewood, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2000.

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• While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Past

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

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

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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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• If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Courage, Goal

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• We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.

  Mike Tomlin

  Inspirational

  "Steelers Notebook: Turf wars - Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?". The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 22, 2007.

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• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

  Stan Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Confidence

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• The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Simple

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• We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Prayer

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Team

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• If you're not nervous, it means you don't care.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Sports, Mean

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• If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Football, Cheating

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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• Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Sports, Moments

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

  Tug McGraw

  Sports, Alcohol, Drug

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