Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 21

• A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

  Cus D'Amato

  Sports, Boys, Fire

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• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.

  Dorothea Brandt

  Sports, Dream, Coaching

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• We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.

  Joseph Hagerty

  Inspirational, Sports, Giving Up

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• I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

  Shaun White

  Sports, World, Olympics

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• The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy.

  Missy Franklin

  Sports, Fun, Goal

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• To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

  Cus D'Amato

  Sports, Men, Boxing

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• Boxers are going away and not getting decisions and are losing, so it's not looking good for us, is it, as a nation? Thanks for pointing that out. It's put even more pressure on me now. I don't mind that at all. I love pressure.

  Carl Froch

  Sports, Decision, Mind

  "Carl Froch ready to roll again and end sorry year for Brits on a high" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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• This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

  Bela Karolyi

  Sports, Dream, Team

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• She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.

  Frank Carroll

  Sports, Long, Skating

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• No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

  Jim Leach

  Sports, Humility, Wrestling

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• But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a marathon runner after 18 or 20 miles, who will survive. The key to that survival is in hard workouts that develop mental confidence to the point where you won't submit to fatigue and pain descending upon you.

  Lou Banach

  Sports, Workout, Wall

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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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• It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Sarcastic, Past

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  Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• Losing is the great American sin.

  Jerome Holtzman

  Sports, Losing, Great American

  Jerome Holtzman (1978). “No Cheering in the Press Box”

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• The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Essence, Important

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• If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Sports, Boxing, Tennis

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• I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Sports, Boxing

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• To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.

  Roland Barthes

  Sports, Dope, Trying

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• People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

  Don Murray

  Sports, Kids, Rocks

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• All sports are games of inches.

  Dick Ritger

  Sports, Games, Inches

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• Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sports, Character, Opportunity

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• When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sports, People, Looks

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.34, Vintage

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• I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Sports, Dark, Umpires

  "Lynne Truss is latest in a tradition of distaff talents to grace the sportspages" by Frank Keating, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2009.

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• Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

  Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

  Sports, Spiritual, Order

  Bees in Some Bonnets (1979) p. 185

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