Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 22

• A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

  Tom Flores

  Life, Commitment, Coaching

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• The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

  Luis Figo

  Football, Mistake, Ideas

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• Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.

  Brandon Todd

  Inspiring, Sports, Opponents

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• It's no shame to fall down, but it is a shame to just stay down.

  Miroslav Klose

  Sports, Fall, Shame

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• I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Goal, Uncompromising

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• They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.

  Joe Kapp

  Sports, Football, Opportunity

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• The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

  Henny Youngman

  Sports, Mean, Giving

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• Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

  Johnny Miller

  Success, Sports, Inspiration

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• Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Player, Giving

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• At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Player

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• You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

  Darrell Royal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Spring

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• I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

  Bill Cartwright

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

  Bob Wickman

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Baseball, Real, Winning

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• I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Coaching, Victory

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• The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

  Cus D'Amato

  Running, Attitude, Hero

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• Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

  Robert J. LeRoy

  Motivational, Baseball, Men

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• If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Thinking

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

  Roland Barthes

  Sports, Wrestling, Thinking

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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