Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 29

• Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

  Don Francis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Nobody's more important than the team.

  Rejean Houle

  Teamwork, Athlete, Hockey

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• When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

  Bill Shoemaker

  Motivational, Sports, Funny Inspirational

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• What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

  Greg Maddux

  Athlete, Pitching, Happens

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• I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

  Orel Hershiser

  Sports, Perseverance, Giving Up

  Orel Hershiser (1990). “Out of the Blue”, Jove Books

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• I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my team. I love facing the challenge of another team that's better.

  Jamila Wideman

  Success, Sports, Running

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• Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement.

  Nicole Haislett

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• In our lives we will encounter many challenges, and tomorrow we face one together. How we accept the challenge and attack the challenge head on is only about us-no one can touch that. If we win or lose this weekend, it will not make a difference in our lives. But why we play and how we play will make a difference in our lives forever.

  Beth Anders

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

  Amy Ruley

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.

  Dot Richardson

  Success, Sports, Team

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• If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment which in turn promotes other important qualities such as work ethic, integrity and a positive atmosphere for competing and winning.

  Jillian Ellis

  Success, Sports, Integrity

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• On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does.

  Red Holzman

  Basketball, Team, Athlete

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• When you talk about an injury and the kind of depression you go through, it's not just because you're out of shape and you can't go out and play. You're missing a part of you. That's what's painful. That's what hurts.

  Jamila Wideman

  Success, Sports, Hurt

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• ...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

  B. C. Forbes

  Sports, Adventure, Destiny

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• The first ninety minutes are the most important.

  Bobby Robson

  Sports, Important, Firsts

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• Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Sports, Foundation

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• In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

  Elka Graham

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Team

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• The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.

  Lyn St. James

  Sports, World, Want

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• A successful coach is one who is still coaching.

  Ben Schwartzwalder

  Sports, Successful, Coaching

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• I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball

  "10 Confessions Even Less Shocking Than Floyd Landis's" by Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.

  Anna Sewell

  Sports, Hurt, Horse

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.6, Mind Melodies

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• People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

  Martina Navratilova

  Girl, Sports, Athlete

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

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• Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

  Ouida

  Sports, Men, Feelings

  Ouida (1901). “Critical Studies”

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• Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

  Bill Tilden

  Sports, Art, Winning

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