Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 23

• I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.

  Bela Karolyi

  Success, Sports, Lying

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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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• The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• Team guts always beat individual greatness.

  Robert Zuppke

  Sports, Team, Greatness

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

  John McGraw

  Sports, Hurt, Men

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