Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Sports, Men

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

  Tug McGraw

  Sports, Alcohol, Drug

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• I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

  Rob Lee

  Sports, Heart, Boys

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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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• With goals you can create the future in advance.

  Tony Robbins

  Sports, Goal

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• A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year...and under-estimate what he can do in five.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Sports, Men, Years

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• Good is the enemy of great.

  James C. Collins

  Sports, Life Changing, Inspiration

  "Good To Great And The Social Sectors". Book by James C. Collins, 2005.

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• Winners are not born, they are self-made.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Self, Winner

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.13, Crown Business

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• Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Perspective, Want

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.187, Crown Business

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• I think all of us create our own miracles.

  Michael Landon

  Sports, Thinking, Miracle

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• Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

  Tony DiCicco

  Sports, Responsibility, Empowering

  Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg (2003). “Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls”, p.123, Penguin

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• Don't make excuses, make good.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sports, Failure, Commitment

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

  Don Meyer

  Sports, Winning, Fundamentals

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